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H’    about
personal finance—and maybe
macroeconomics as well—that I
first heard about  years ago. I
wish I had heard it  years ago. I hope a
few -somethings are listening to me now.
It’s the simple story of two young couples—
let’s call them the Smiths and the Browns—who
were eager to buy their first homes.
For the purposes of this account, we’ll assume
that the Smiths and the Browns are virtually equal
in almost everything they bring to this big purchase.
Their incomes and savings are the same. Both have
two young children. Their credit worthiness is the
same. Their overall economic circumstances are
very similar.
We’ll also assume for this exercise, though it’s a
stretch of our imaginations in today’s economy, that
both the Smiths and the Browns can afford a down
payment of ,.
What’s also the same is both families’ desire to
buy almost identical homes. They’re both attracted
to recently constructed, three-bedroom, two-bath
homes on spacious lots. They’d both prefer the
comforts of air conditioning. They’d like to keep
their quite-new cars in a garage. Naturally, they
really prefer marble countertops in the kitchen
(where they both have their eyes on a dishwasher)
and in the bathrooms. In the neighborhood where
they’d both like to live, the price tag on such houses
is about ,.
The Smiths have very much fallen in love with
the house of their dreams. They’ve even made a list
of all the things they’re willing to give up so that
they can afford the regular mortgage payment—
which will be about , monthly for the next 
years. With a big gulp, they sign on the dotted line.
The Browns, meanwhile, are gulping in a different way. Across town, they’ve found another house
that, while by no means a nightmare, is neither
what you’d call a dream. The neighborhood’s a little
scruffy. Just two bedrooms, and another that might
work for a third. Only one bath. Formica instead of
marble, and there’s a big burnt circle right next to
the kitchen sink where someone set an overly hot
pan. No dishwasher.

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What’s got the Browns dreaming, though, is the
prospect that in just eight years, with the same
, monthly payment the Smiths are making,
they can own this , house outright. No debt
at all. And then, just eight years from now, other
things being equal, they can take their ,
asset and make a  percent down payment on a
, house like the one they’re saying “no” to
now. At that point, they can repeat the eight-year
process. Sixteen years from right now, the Browns
will own the , house, with no debt and no
further payments. Remarkably, they will have to
wait only eight years longer than the Smiths to
enjoy such comforts and such dreams.
The Smiths, meanwhile, after  years, still owe
about , on their , house, which by
now they will think of as a little old and run down.
They’d like to remodel, but can’t even think about it
because of those , monthly payments they still
face for another  years!
The story of the Smiths, of whom there are many,
and the Browns, of whom there are way too few, is
one I first heard from my business professor friend
Richard Chewning—but only after I was already
committed to my first -year mortgage. I wish I
had heard with more clarity a few years earlier. If I
had heard it, and if I had listened, I would now be a
wealthier man. If I had heard and taught that story
more faithfully, my family would be more financially
secure. My little part of God’s kingdom—my local
church, the schools I support, and the outreach
agencies I back—would all have more resources to
work with.
The story of the Smiths and the Browns is not just
about housing. It’s about every dollar any of us ever
spends. And it’s a story rooted in the deep biblical
truth about the riches to be reaped when we faithfully defer our desires. A
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Furious
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NEWS: As Justice
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T -  over
Operation Fast and Furious is now
raising the ire of both political parties.
Republicans are upset with Obama
administration officials for stonewalling the
investigation into a federal gun program that
supplied firearms to Mexican drug cartels.
Democrats in the White House are furious at
one reporter for sticking with the story.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Lamar Smith, R-Texas, sent a letter to
President Barack Obama on Oct.  requesting
that he appoint a special counsel to examine
whether Attorney General Eric Holder misled
congressional lawmakers during testimony
under oath on May . Smith’s committee had
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learned about Fast and Furious, the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
program that distributed more than ,
guns to a Mexican trafficking network.
Documents show that agents used taxpayer funds to purchase the semi-automatic
weapons and then sold them to at least one
cartel. The guns later turned up at numerous
violent crime scenes in both Mexico and the
United States, including one attack that killed
a U.S. border agent. When a whistleblower
revealed the operation, the Justice
Department initially claimed it was a
“botched” operation during which agents
had “lost track” of the weapons.
Holder, in his May testimony, said, “I’m
not sure of the exact date, but I probably
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

Irene–imposed postponement in August,
the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in
Washington, D.C., will be officially dedicated
on Oct. . The new October date is set to
coincide with the th anniversary of
the Million Man March.

LOOKING
AHEAD

EU leaders summit

Leaders of
the -member European Union will begin
two days of meetings on Oct.  that will likely
be filled with discussions of the Eurozone’s
debt crisis. As recently as Oct. , Greece
admitted that it will miss deficit targets it
agreed to in July, casting doubt that even a
planned second bailout would solve Greece’s
debt problems.

Weight
change

By the time
the th
Convocation of
the General
Conference on
Weights and
Measures
wraps up its
meeting in
Sèvres, France, on Oct. , the kilogram may have a new weight.
Traditionally, the kilogram has had
roughly the same mass as a liter of
water. Scientists are hoping to
recalculate the kilogram to equal
exactly the mass of a liter of water.
The conference could update other
measurements, including the
ampere, kelvin, and mole.

Vegas debate It’s hard to imagine

any serious contenders for the  presidential nomination not being in the race by midOctober. So the Oct.  Republican debate
hosted by Western
Republican
Leadership
Conference in
Las Vegas
could be 
voters’ first
chance to see
the settled
Republican field.

Bolshoi reopens After

a six-year,  million restoration,
the famed Bolshoi Theater of
Moscow will reopen on Oct. .
Gone are the Soviet symbols that
used to adorn the theater’s façade.
The first performance is scheduled
to be Glinka’s opera, “Ruslan and
Ludmila.”

Gliding Wright The Wright Brothers’  flight may be

more impressive, but for a solid decade no one could break the gliding
record set  years ago on Oct.  in North Carolina. Orville
Wright lifted off in his Wright Glider and soared for 
minutes and  seconds—a feat that enthusiasts will attempt to recreate in
North Carolina.

heard about Fast and Furious for the first
time over the last few weeks.” The question now is whether Holder perjured
himself: Smith wrote in his letter that
several recently released memos “raise
significant questions about the truthfulness of the attorney general’s testimony.”
For example, the director of the National
Drug Intelligence Center told Holder in a
July  memo that the operation was
“responsible for the purchase of ,
firearms that were then supplied to the
Mexican drug trafficking cartels.”
In his letter to Obama, Smith wrote
that documents suggest Holder began
receiving weekly briefings about Fast and
Furious no later than July , :
“Senior Justice Department officials may
have intentionally misled members of
Congress.” Other lawmakers pressing for
more information include Sen. John
McCain and other members of the congressional delegation
from Arizona, the
state where border patrol agent
Brian Terry was
gunned down in
December .
Investigators found
two guns from the
program at the
crime scene.
As Congress
tried to unravel
the truth of what
Holder knew and
when he knew it, one
reporter found herself in a White House
hornet’s nest. CBS News investigative
journalist Sharyl Attkisson told the Laura
Ingraham Show on Oct.  that White House
and Justice Department officials yelled and
screamed at her for pursuing the story.
Attkisson said a White House official
cursed at her while arguing that investigating the scandal was unnecessary. She
added that government officials argued
she was not being reasonable since she
was the only reporter pursuing the story:
“They say The Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New
York Times is reasonable. I’m the only one
who thinks this is a story, and they think
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Hiring rights

DECISION STANDS
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an
appeal of a case concerning World Vision’s
policy to hire Christians only, so the 
ruling of the th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
in favor of World Vision stands. The high
court’s decision means that World Vision can
continue requiring its employees to agree to
a statement of faith. World Vision fired three
employees for not agreeing to the statement
of faith: The three sued, arguing that the
organization was humanitarian, not religious,
but lower courts said World Vision qualifies
as a religious organization. “Our Christian
faith has been the foundation of our work
since the organization was established in
, and our hiring policy is vital to the
integrity of our mission to serve the poor as
followers of Jesus Christ,” said World Vision
president Richard Stearns, in a statement
after the Supreme Court’s decision.

It started out as little more than street theater, but
throughout the first week of October the Occupy
Wall Street movement grew into what The New
Republic called “a younger, dreadlocked version of
the Tea Party.”
With declared complaints against corporations
that ranged from the sound (“They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to
give Executives exorbitant bonuses”) to the misdirected (“They have held students hostage with tens
of thousands of dollars of debt on education”),
nearly  protesters were arrested on Oct.  as they
shut down a lane of traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge.
As liberal journalists gave Occupy Wall Street
favorable publicity, an Oct.  Rasmussen poll found
that  percent of Americans have a favorable view
of the protesters,  percent hold an unfavorable
view, and  percent have no opinion.

President Barack Obama’s administration has sat on the fence regarding
the liberty of religious institutions to hire and fire based on religious
beliefs. One sign that it’s coming off the fence came in the Supreme Court
building on Oct.  when Leondra Kruger of the Justice Department argued
that religious institutions should be treated just like other institutions in
matters of hiring.
Kruger’s argument shocked the justices in what was already a
blockbuster religious freedom case, Hosanna-Tabor v. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (see “Firing lines,” Oct. ). “This is extraordinary—
extraordinary,” Justice Antonin Scalia told Kruger during oral arguments.
“There in black and white in the Constitution are special protections for
religion.” One of the liberal justices jumped in on Scalia’s side: “I too find
this amazing,” said Justice Elena Kagan.
The facts of the case seemed to agitate Justice Anthony Kennedy, often
a swing vote on the court. Cheryl Perich was a church-commissioned
teacher at Hosanna-Tabor, a church and school in Redford, Mich., affiliated
with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (). When a doctor diagnosed
her with narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that may leave sufferers falling
asleep on the job, she took a leave of absence. When she asked to return to
work, school officials said she wasn’t ready. When she said she would sue,
the church withdrew her commission and fired her for going to courts
instead of the church’s established tribunals, as  teaching requires.
The Supreme Court has never before ruled on who falls under the
“ministerial exception,” a court-created law protecting religious institutions
from federal oversight, and all of the justices seemed troubled that courts
were deciding who counted as a minister and who didn’t. Several liberal
and conservative justices treated the government’s position against the
ministerial exception as radical, but Kennedy commented, “She was fired
simply for asking for a hearing.” Douglas Laycock, the church’s attorney,
responded, “She could have had a hearing in the synod.”

There he goes again

Jim wallis’ sojourners accepts $150,000 more from
atheist George soros by Marvin Olasky
Last year Jim Wallis encountered a barrage of criticism when
WORLD reported that his religious left organization,
Sojourners, took $325,000 from the world’s most notorious
billionaire, pro-abortion atheist George Soros (July 17 and
Sept. 11, 2010). Now he’s at it again: In an email note to me,
Wallis confirmed that Soros’ Open Society Foundation has just
given Sojourners $150,000 more.
The donation is more evidence that Wallis and Sojourners
are on the left, even though the organization appeals to young
evangelicals by claiming to be apolitical—in Wallis’
summation, not left but “deep.” Sojourners has paid its bills
through contributions from co-religionists but also with
$250,000 from The Tides Foundation, $200,000 from the Ford
and Rockefeller Foundations, and additional sums from Barbra
Streisand and others.
For some contributors, Sojourners is a useful tool in reducing
evangelical support for conservatives. Others have grander

motives: Soros
himself has stated,
“The main obstacle to
a stable and just world
order is the United States.”
Wallis defended his decision to solicit and accept Soros
funds by pointing me to William Booth, founder of the Salvation
Army, who accepted donations from disreputable sources.
Booth, though, took contributions from liquor-sellers and
gamblers who knew he would undercut their endeavors. Soros
gives money to Wallis to promote the political views they share.
Booth helped the poor without campaigning for governmental growth and materialistic panaceas: He explained, “To
get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair
of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him
a University education. These things are all outside a man, and
if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor.”

The Playboy Club only survived until its third episode
after NBC canceled the new show amid weak ratings and
intense criticism of the prime-time series, which was based on the Playboy nightclubs Hugh
Hefner started in the 1960s. It marks the first cancellation of the fall season and a victory
for family groups like the Parents Television Council (PTC) that aggressively protested it.
Prior to the show’s launch, PTC had called on the network to cancel the drama while
urging advertisers to reconsider their support for it. “Bringing The Playboy Club to broadcast
television was a poor programming decision from the start,” said PTC president Tim
Winter. “We’re pleased that NBC will no longer be airing a program so inherently linked to a
pornographic brand that denigrates and sexualizes women.”

Off the farm
Hundreds of children avoided Alabama public schools and acres of
crops went unpicked after an Alabama judge on Sept. 28 upheld most
of the state’s new immigration law. The law—considered the strictest
clampdown on illegal immigration in the nation—requires public
schools to record the immigration status of new students, allows
police to check immigration status during routine traffic stops, and
requires employers to verify the legal status of their laborers.
Many apparently illegal laborers fled, leaving many Alabama
farmers shorthanded during the crucial harvest season. Chad
Smith—a tomato farmer near Chandler Mountain—said he would
normally use 12 trucks in harvesting his fields, but only had the
workers for three. Smith (on the right) estimated his family farm
could lose up to $150,000 this season because of a lack of laborers.
Many others fear losing their crops or their farms.
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Ahead of the th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of
Afghanistan, the U.S. embassy in Kabul issued an alert to
U.S. citizens working in the country, following the U.S.
attack in Yemen that killed al-Qaeda leader Anwar alAwlaki. His death—plus the capture in Afghanistan of a
commander of the al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked Haqqani
clan—had U.S. forces braced for reprisal attacks on
American targets.
 forces announced that they had captured Haji
Mali Khan in a joint raid with Afghan forces just a day after
al-Awlaki’s death in Yemen at the hands of a -directed
drone. On Oct. , days after Khan’s capture, U.S. forces
killed a principal deputy to Khan known by one name,
Dilawar, in a precision air strike near Afghanistan’s border
with Pakistan. Targeted killings have been increasingly

COURAGEOUS FIGHTER
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a Baptist pastor and civil rights leader who
survived bombings and beatings in Birmingham, Ala., died Oct.  at
the age of . Shuttlesworth helped found the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and joined Martin Luther King Jr. in
advocating nonviolence in the civil rights movement. His children
were arrested, a bomb exploded under his bedroom, and he was
hospitalized after falling under the fire hoses of the infamous
Eugene “Bull” Connor. Connor said after the incident, “I wish
they’d carried him away in a hearse.” King described Shuttlesworth
as “the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South.”

used by the Obama administration, especially since the
May raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
U.S. officials blame the Haqqani network, based in
Pakistan, for recent attacks in Afghanistan, including last
month’s -hour siege at the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Last
week the outgoing chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, accused Pakistan’s spy agency,
the , of supporting the Haqqani network in carrying out
the attacks, the most serious allegation yet of Pakistani
duplicity in the -year war. Commanders in Afghanistan
called the capture “a significant milestone in the disruption of the Haqqani Network.”
The death of Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and



rely on homegrown U.S. terrorAwlaki the
ists. Along with Awlaki,
drone attack also killed terrorist
Samir Khan—who was born in
Saudi Arabia but grew up in
New York and North
Carolina and held
U.S. citizenship.
Having conspired
over multiple acts
of terrorism,
Awlaki and Khan
“gave up the
benefits of
American citizenship by taking up
arms against
their country,”
points out analyst
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Democrats are complaining about Republicans in the House of
Representatives investigating the activities of abortion leader Planned
Parenthood, which annually receives about  million in government grants—but when Democrats had a majority of House seats and
could schedule investigations, they went after pro-life centers that
live by volunteer labor rather than federal funding.
Last month Rep. Cliff Stearns,, R-Fla., chairman of
the House Committee on Oversight and
Investigations, sent Planned Parenthood
Federation of America a six-page letter
requesting more than a decade of documents.
He is attempting to determine whether the
group is illegally using federal funds to pay for
abortions. Stearns’ committee will also investigate other alleged abuses, including failure to
report cases of statutory rape and sex trafficking.
Two senior Democrats, Reps. Henry Waxman of California and
Diana DeGette of Colorado, responded to Stearns by arguing that
the investigation singles out Planned Parenthood as “part of a
Republican vendetta.” Waxman in  led an investigation of prolife pregnancy care centers and claimed the centers provide “false and
misleading information.” Pro-life groups debunked Waxman’s report.

Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner
of 11 years, Dan Swezy, exchanged
wedding vows in Vermont at the
stroke of midnight on Sept. 20—
the first moment possible after the
military formally repealed the longstanding “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Now, with a Sept. 30 ruling from the
Pentagon, such ceremonies may be
performed by chaplains and take place
inside military bases. The ruling is
already putting pressure on chaplains
who worry that it brings the Armed
Services one step closer to alienating
conservative Christian denominations.
The Pentagon’s decision allows
Defense Department property to be used
for same-sex ceremonies as long as such
unions are not prohibited by state law.
But Ron Crews, a retired military
chaplain with the rank of colonel, said
this latest Defense Department memo
“flies in the face” of the federal Defense
of Marriage Act (DoMa). “I am just
stunned by the brazenness of this
apparent permission for chaplains to
violate federal law,” said Crews.
Crews said all military bases are
federal property and should respect
federal laws such as DoMa, which states
that the federal government can only
recognize marriage as the union of one

man and one woman. The Pentagon’s new
policy does not force a chaplain to perform
same-sex ceremonies, but Crews said this
changed military landscape might force
conservative chaplains into a defensive
posture, as some groups are likely to test
the limits of the ruling.
Many former chaplains are encouraging new chaplains to continue to be a
source of counsel for the nation’s soldiers
while “serving according to the tenants
of their faith,” said Doug Lee, a retired
brigadier general chaplain. He added, “It
is a red flag that the Pentagon is sort of
dabbling into church affairs by talking
about what a chaplain can and can’t do.
Chaplains exist to serve their faith group,
and those faith groups make decisions
about a chaplain’s ministry.”
Passed last December by a lame-duck
Congress, the law repealed the longstanding “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy
that had prohibited homosexuals from
openly serving in the military. It did not
address same-sex weddings on military
bases or by military chaplains. Crews and
Lee said this latest
decision reinforces
NEW PRESSURE:
a chaplain leads
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soldiers of the
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As Iranian pastor Youcef
Nadarkhani waited to learn
whether he would face
execution for refusing to recant
his Christian faith, his attorney
reported a troubling new
development: Iran’s state-run
news agency began leveling
new charges against
Nadarkhani, accusing the
pastor of being a Zionist and a
threat to national security.
Attorney Mohammed Ali
Dadkhah said the post-trial
claims were the first time he
heard such accusations against
his client. Religious freedom
groups worried that the Iranian
government created the new
charges to justify a death
sentence, even as international
pressure mounted for the
pastor’s release.
Police arrested Nadarkhani
in October 2009 on charges
related to his work as a pastor.
A court found Nadarkhani—a
husband and father of two
children—guilty of apostasy
against Islam and sentenced
him to death by hanging.
Nadarkhani, 32, appealed to
the Iranian Supreme Court,
where justices demanded he
recant his faith. The pastor
refused, saying: “What should I
return to? The blasphemy that I
had before my faith in Christ?”
When the judges said he should
return to Islam, Nadarkhani’s
reply was simple: “I cannot.”

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10/6/11 4:03 PM

Dispatches > Human Race

Canadian-born researcher
Ralph Steinman was one of
three scientists to win the 
Nobel Prize in medicine on Oct.
. The cancer researcher had
died on Sept.  after a fouryear battle with pancreatic
cancer. The Nobel committee,
which had not known of
Steinman’s death, decided not
to retract the award despite
rules that it go to the living.


After more than  years of
curmudgeonly commentary, Andy Rooney,
, has retired
from ’ 
Minutes.
The show
had featured the
regular
segment
“A Few
Minutes

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah
overturned last month a court
verdict that had sentenced
Shaima Jastaina to  lashes for
breaking the country’s rule
against women driving. The
ruling had sparked worldwide
condemnation, coming just


Megachurch pastor Rob
Bell,, , has announced he
is leaving the Michigan
church he founded, Mars
Hill Bible Church, to “take
another leap into the
unknown.” Bell (pictured
with his wife, Kristen) says
he and his family will
relocate to Los Angeles
where he reportedly
plans to write more
books, undertake
speaking engagements,
and work on a spiritual television
drama loosely based on his
life. His book Love Wins
sparked controversy
in the evangelical
community earlier
this year for questioning orthodox
doctrines about
hell (“Liberal love,”
April ).


An  investigation successfully foiled a lone wolf terrorist
plot allegedly aimed at crashing
explosive-filled drone aircraft
into the
Pentagon
and U.S.
Capitol.
Officials
arrested
Rezwan
Ferdaus, a
Ferdaus
-year-old
American citizen, on Sept. 
after conducting months-long
surveillance and
undercover work.
Federal agents said
Ferdaus also modified
cell phones to act as
switches for improvised explosive
devices with the intent
of passing them on to
terrorists in the Middle
East.

days after Abdullah had
announced women would be
allowed to vote and run in
municipal elections in .
Earlier this year, Saudi women
protested the region’s sexist law
by getting behind the wheel and
driving their cars around town
(“Taking the wheels,” July ).

 
The trial of former Soviet
military officer Viktor Bout, ,
the alleged international arms
dealer whom U.S. officials
accuse of attempting to sell
weapons to a Colombian
terrorist group, was due to
begin Oct.  in U.S. federal
court. Last November, the
United States extradited the
so-called “Merchant of Death”
from Thailand—a move that
angered the Kremlin.

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“If it is true, then we
truly haven’t
understood anything
about anything.”

“It is as if a doctor advised an alcoholic to
drink more beer in order to get better.”
CLEMENT WERGIN, foreign editor of Die Welt, writing in the
Daily Telegraph, on German politicians who advocate more
economic integration in Europe in response to the financial crises
in Greece and Italy.

“Thinking about it for
another minute, if it’s
not aliens, it’s got to
be the United States.”
German cybersecurity expert
RALPH LANGNER, who last year
discovered the Stuxnet worm, on the
force he believes to be behind the
cyber-superweapon.



ALVARO DE RUJULA, a theorist at
, the European Center for Nuclear
Research, on a report that physicists
have detected subatomic
particles moving faster than the speed of light
(see p. ).

“New Jersey, whether you
like it or not, you’re stuck
with me.”
New Jersey Gov. CHRIS CHRISTIE
CHRISTIE,
announcing on Oct.  that he will not run
for the Republican presidential nomination
in .

“I don’t think they’re
better off than they were
four years ago.”
President BARACK OBAMA on Americans
facing economic woes. The president pushed
his jobs recovery bill as a way to reduce
unemployment.

Dispatches > Quick Takes
 
Unsatisfied with lazier candidates, the Society for New Bulgaria party in the Eastern
European nation has put forth a donkey to stand for election in the mayoral race in the
Black Sea city of Varna. Incumbent mayor Kiril Yordanov has refused to debate the beast of
burden but the marginal political party is campaigning on its virtues. “Unlike the other
mayor candidates and politicians, the Donkey has a strong character, doesn’t steal, doesn’t
lie, and gets work done,” a party representative told a local radio station. Another
party member added: “Let the residents of Varna draw the line and decide who
has more positive qualities—the donkey or the incumbent mayor.”

 
When officials in charge of the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport in
Tennessee struggled to find the right moniker to rename their airport,
they eventually paid an advertising firm in Birmingham, Ala., for
answers. Birmingham-based Big
Communications solution for officials at the Chattanooga airport:
Rename the facility Chattanooga
Airport. The firm said the removal
of “Metropolitan” from the name
adds simplicity to the title.

Don’t expect this to show up on the campaign trail
anytime soon. One eBay seller in Blanco, Texas, has
offered for sale a six-foot terra cotta sculpture of
Texas Governor Rick Perry for the first person to
fork over ,. The sculpture comes with a special
bonus: Much like a Chia Pet, the seller promises
anyone can grow grass or ivy out of the terra cotta
Governor Goodhair’s scalp. EBay user “momdogger”
bragged about the offering: “[Perry] stated at a Tea
Party debate that he would be offended if somebody
thought he could be bought for ,. He obviously
hasn’t evaluated his worth as a gigantic planter. You
can secure this bad boy for only ,.”

 
As far as the U.S. Government is concerned, New Yorker Ignacio Marc
Asperas holds the patent on making snowmen. In September, the Melville,
N.Y., resident applied for and received a patent for his technique in rolling
snow into the shape of a snowman. His
patent application included detailed
diagrams and instructions on how
to create large snow people,
with tips and tricks
including using the “long
end of a shovel as a lever
to rotate the boulder
when it is really big,” he
wrote in the patent. “I do not
pretend that the ultimate
snowman will be as revolutionary
to the advancement of mankind
(as the wheel and the toaster
oven),” Asperas wrote. “But I
do contend that as far as I
know no one has ever
conceived and reduced to
practice such an apparatus.”

In its most recent magazine issue, terror
group and Sept.  perpetrator al-Qaeda
delivered harsh words to Iranian
President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad: Stop
conspiratorially portraying
the terror attacks on Washington, D.C., and New
York City as an inside job. “Why would Iran ascribe
to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face
of all logic and evidence?” the al-Qaeda writer
said. The missive from the terrorism network
improbably mirrored a satirical news video
uploaded by The Onion to YouTube in April .



Elsie Pawlow of
Edmonton, Alberta,
says she had a bout
with depression. It
lasted  minutes. It
was caused by
chewing gum.
Regardless, Pawlow is
suing Kraft Canada,
makers of Stride Gum,
for emotional pain and
suffering rendered to
her when a piece of
the gum became
lodged in her dentures.
According to the
lawsuit filed on Sept.
, Pawlow said she
chewed the Stride
Gum for five minutes
before it became
stuck in her dentures.
She then spent some
time digging the gum
remnants out of her
false teeth and,
according to her claim,
slipped into an
agonizing “depression
for approximately 
minutes.” Pawlow’s
lawsuit requests
, for her
trouble.

If cats have nine lives,
one named Frank and
Louie in Worcester,
Mass., may have .
Frank/Louie turned 
years old in September,
a record age for a cat
with the rare condition
of having two faces.
Few “Janus cats”—named for the Roman god of
transitions, gates, and doorways—survive into adulthood.
Frank/Louie has one brain, so its faces act in unison. It
can only eat with its right face (Frank’s).

  
A nightmarish scenario was real life for one Brazilian woman whose
family says she was mistakenly ruled dead, placed in a body bag,
and delivered to the refrigerated morgue, only to be discovered
alive two hours later. The family of Rosa Celestrino de Assis
says that an attending doctor pronounced the elderly
pneumonia sufferer dead on Sept.  and sent her body to
the Rio de Janeiro hospital’s morgue. After two hours, the
woman’s daughter came to see the body for one last time
only to discover her mother was breathing. “Not only
did I have to go collect my mum from a cold storage
drawer at the morgue, but when I got there, I find her
still breathing,” Rosangela Celestrino told the Brazilian
daily O Globo. ABC News reported that one nurse was
fired and one doctor resigned over the incident.

   
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is on
a mission to defend the honor of
the humble potato. Guidelines
recently introduced by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
would dramatically reduce the
use of potatoes in public-school
lunch programs across the nation.
The  says students should limit
starchy vegetables like potatoes, lima beans, and corn to
only two servings per week. That, says Sen. Collins, is
nonsense. “I certainly agree that French fries is not the
healthiest choice, but a baked potato can be a good source
of potassium for our children,” said Collins, who represents
one of the  largest potato-growing states. Collins said
she and her starchy allies in Idaho and Colorado will
attempt to strip funding for the anti-potato measure
from the  budget sometime this autumn.
OCTOBER 22, 2011

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Janie B. Cheaney

Greeks bearing debts

Europe’s economic union of vastly different cultures was a recipe for failure

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A     I’ve ever visited that
features museum exhibits in the subways. It’s
impossible to dig anywhere without turning up
archaeological treasures, and something has to
be done with them. So, while hurrying from one level
to another underground, accompanied by the whoosh
of tube trains, I kept encountering displays—early
Attic weaving, or a complete human skeleton surrounded with burial artifacts. Antiquity beats with
the rhythm of contemporary life, a constant reminder
of past brilliance clashing with present instability.
Greek pride in its ancient accomplishments is
justified, but for most of its history Greece has been
a backwater controlled by foreigners. The sovereign
nation did not exist until the s and was never
exactly stable. Its first governor, John Kapodistrias,
was assassinated in St. Spiros church in the seaside
town of Nafplio. Coups, revolts, and juntas followed—
as if, having invented democracy for the rest of the
world, the Greeks could never get a handle on it for
themselves.
There’s a story about how Kapodistrias, seeking to
alleviate periodic famines, decided to introduce a
cheap, versatile food to his countrymen: potatoes. He
imported a boatload of them and piled them in the
town square with an invitation to the public to take as
many as they wanted. But the people were suspicious,
and the pile remained untouched. So Kapodistrias
posted a guard around the wagons and declared the
potatoes off limits—and within a few nights, they were
all gone. That’s how the potato was introduced to
Greece, and why French fries are now on every menu.
Cute story, and possibly even true. The point is
not that Greeks are thieves but that they are individualistic and deeply distrustful. Though family and
local bonds remain strong, cooperative effort for the

good of all is not a defining characteristic.
National pride does not extend to sprucing
up storefronts; except for a few beauty
spots and the incomparable Parthenon,
Athens is an ugly city.
Journalist Michael Lewis, investigating
Greece’s financial problems for Vanity Fair,
discovered that tax evasion is common,
even expected: “The only Greeks who paid
their taxes were the ones who could not
avoid doing so—the salaried employees of
corporations, who had their taxes withheld
from their paychecks.” Everybody else
cheats. He also noted the universal suspicion of church, neighbors, business, and government,
in spite of that government handing out wads of
cash to pensioners, many of whom are allowed to
retire at age  because of the unusual stress of their
jobs. “Stress” is broadly defined to include hairdressing and nightclub singing.
“It is the culture that creates economies, not the
other way around,” wrote Roger Scruton about the
blindness of the European Union. When hardworking,
ambitious (to a fault) Germany shares a currency with
shifty, casual Greece, what could be the result but a
Germany saddled with Greek debt? The situation is
already terrible; as I write, another nationwide strike
has been called to protest the “austerity measures” the
government must enforce in order to receive another
-billion-euro infusion of the -billion loan
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service-union workers shut down air traffic and the
port of Pireus, temporarily kneecapping the tourism
that pumps millions into the economy.
Failing to take culture—and human nature—into
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and a sense of community, all of which are embedded
in a culture. Those who try to enforce a collective
may collectively perish. A
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T D T earned the highest receipts, the big box office story the
weekend of Oct.  was the movie that
came in fourth. With a miniscule budget
(by Hollywood standards) of only  million, a
Christian-themed story of five men struggling to
live up to the high calling of fatherhood earned
 million in its opening weekend. This feat is
especially impressive given that it screened on
less than half the number of theaters as its
mainstream competitors. Looking solely at
per-theater averages, Courageous was far and
away the weekend’s winner.
The latest production from Sherwood Baptist
Church’s movie ministry (best known for Facing
the Giants and Fireproof), Courageous (rated
- for violence and drug content) packs an

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undeniable emotional punch. In addressing
arguably the greatest social ill America faces—
absentee fathers—writer/director/actor/producer
Alex Kendrick and screenwriter/producer
Stephen Kendrick show that Christian movies
have the potential to compete in the same arena
as the big boys. Not only have they achieved the
kind of laugh-out-loud humor usually foreign
to the genre, their opening action sequence in
which a father chases down his would-be
carjacker is as tense and riveting as any from
the likes of James Cameron or Michael Bay.
Most of the characters are well-written and
nuanced. Rather than stock bad guys and
heroes, we have conflicted men with complicated backgrounds. The movie tackles issues of
divorce, complacency, and abandonment with
such a relatable tone, by the time it issues a
clarion call to fathers to stand against a cultural
tide that would make them irrelevant, it will be
a rare hard-hearted man who doesn’t feel
inspired to answer.
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MOVIE

/
BY MICHAEL LEASER

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C      , so devising a fresh take
on the deadly disease is a challenge for any filmmaker. Few
would be bold enough to attempt a comedic angle, but screenwriter
Will Reiser has concocted an engaging, though often vulgar,
dramedy that finds true-to-life humor in the experiences and
relationships of a young man suffering from cancer.
Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has lived his life playing it safe:
no drinking, no smoking, and no driving—because it’s the fifth
leading cause of death. He has a gregarious, foul-mouthed best
friend (Seth Rogen), a beautiful but needy girlfriend (Bryce Dallas
Howard), and a mother with smothering instincts (Anjelica Huston).
When he discovers his back pain is a malignant tumor that needs
a series of chemotherapy treatments followed by risky surgery, his
well-meaning friends and family offer various, largely unwanted,
coping techniques. His girlfriend buys him a dog, his mother offers
to move in with him, and, after he breaks up with his girlfriend, his
best friend suggests he use his condition to pick up women.
Striving to maintain some sense of normalcy, Adam reluctantly
sees a hospital-recommended therapist (Anna Kendrick), who
turns out to be a young and untested doctoral student, learning as
much about herself as about Adam while she tries to help him. He
also finds some engaging and sometimes-helpful company in two
older men going through cancer treatments themselves, played
by Philip Baker Hall and Matt Frewer, who offer home-spun
wisdom along with marijuana-laced macaroon cookies.
Gordon-Levitt delivers a relatable performance, effectively
showing how Adam tries to maintain his identity while dealing
with the challenges his condition presents, both physically and in
his relationships. Kendrick convincingly demonstrates the real
difficulties a young therapist can have in balancing personal concern for her patient’s well-being while maintaining a professional
distance. Rogen’s blowhard character ensures the film never
descends into melodrama, but his too-frequent use of profanity
(the primary reason the film earned an R rating) keeps /
from reaching its full potential as a sincerely moving but grounded
take on handling cancer.

Sherwood’s productions perform
astonishingly
well—for
amateurs. But as
last year’s winner of
France’s Palm d’Or, Of Gods
and Men, demonstrates, the
capacity of experienced
actors—to borrow a writer’s
cliché—to show without
telling is invaluable. They
understand the art of
subtlety and when a fleeting
expression of pain will
reveal more than all-out
sobbing. They trust their
audiences to respond
without the promptings of
enormous indicating
gestures, something inexpe-

ALL IN THE
FAMILY:
Alex (left)
and Stephen
Kendrick.

rienced actors like those in
Courageous rarely do.
The film’s closing credits
uncover a similar cause for
its other weaknesses—the
Kendricks are doing half the
jobs themselves. It’s a shame
given that the presence of
editors and producers with
years of practice in the
Hollywood trenches might
have elevated Courageous
from “good if deeply
flawed” to just plain good.
For example, had the
movie dropped at least one
of the five fathers’ storylines
to dig deeper into the
remaining characters’ lives,
the evangelizing scenes that
come later would
have felt less
calculated and
unearned. And a
trained editing eye
might have spotted
that piling high
point upon high
point wasn’t lifting
the story up, it was
dragging it down.
Courageous would
have benefitted
from leaving at
least three of its
emotional climaxes on the
cutting-room floor.
Christian audiences—
starved for anything that
speaks to them on a spiritual
level—will continue to support Sherwood Baptist films
for those elements that work
while charitably overlooking
those that don’t. But what a
gift it would be to those
same audiences, as well as to
viewers who aren’t as likely
to forgive shortcomings for
the sake of message, for the
Kendricks to build on their
God-given talents and make
a movie of such quality it
requires no caveats. It won’t
come as cheap or as easy,
but it will be worth it. A

Now, with so much
positive to note about the
film, I would like to go out
on a limb and offer a
suggestion to the Kendrick
brothers. Perhaps it’s time to
go corporate and dive into
the high-dollar end of the
pool. Not that they should
go bigger just for bigger’s
sake—but go bigger for
excellence’s sake. They have
grown with each movie, and
Courageous proves they are
ready for the challenges that
come with pricier
productions.
Volunteer actors are a
wonderful thing and those
who have served in

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Machine Gun
Preacher
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pop up often on the Hollywood
publicity circuit. The subject of the
unlikely action movie Machine Gun
Preacher sported a leather biker jacket and
chewed on a toothpick during our interview
in Washington, D.C., looking like a patron of
the rougher sort of bar. However, his speech
was peppered with words like “born again” and
“spirit-filled” and Bible passages.
Hollywood script writer Jason Keller, also in the
interview, admitted he did not originally know what to
make of his subject, but grew to respect him. “What I
started to see in Sam [was] a man who’s a preacher,
who’s a good Christian, who was flawed, but trying to
be the best man and Christian he can be.”
Gerard Butler stars as Childers, a drug abuser and

T W, a passion project from the
father-and-son team of Martin Sheen
and Emilio Estevez, presents the intensely
faith-filled practice of pilgrimage in a way
that is not heavy-handed or saccharine.
Sheen is a famously devout Catholic
while his son describes his faith as “a work
in progress,” but they both found transcendence in the story of Tom (Sheen), a doctor
who decides to complete the journey of his
son (Estevez, who also wrote
the script) after he was killed
in an accident. The lapsed
Catholic father walks an
ancient pilgrimage route from
the Pyrenees Mountains to the
cathedral in Spain where the
remains of Saint James are
said to be buried. The grieving
father meets other pilgrims on
the “Camino,” all with their
own needs that drive them to a
trip that feels foreign to their
modern sensibilities.

criminal whose Christian conversion is unapologetically portrayed in the movie. On a church trip to Africa,
he feels a call from God to shelter and protect children
in Sudan, children who were routinely kidnapped and
forced into prostitution or into the militia. Childers not
only built an orphanage but picked up a gun and
ambushed militia in Sudan’s brutal civil war to rescue
the children.
Because of its somber subject matter, the film is
rated R. Nor does it shy away from Childers’ rough
past. To portray its subject honestly, the movie
includes high levels of violence, lots of swearing, and a
married sex scene.
Because Childers feels God’s call to rescue orphans
so deeply, he nearly despairs when he fails. His crisis of
faith becomes the strongest part of the film. The film
always respects the faith that drives the story, but it
raises more questions than it answers.
Don’t look to Childers for answers. He doesn’t have
time to debate the theological implications of toting a
gun or his heavily works-based preaching. “I never try
to claim that what I do is right,” he said. “But I will claim
the defense that over a thousand children will say that
what I do is right.”

“You don’t have to go to Jerusalem or
Mecca or Santiago to go on pilgrimage, you
go in your own heart,” Sheen said when I
talked to him, Estevez, and producer David
Alexanian in Washington, D.C. “But it is
more conducive to get you out of your
normal, everyday life. … You begin to let go
of judgments and envies, anger and resentment, and all the negativity that keeps us
from being human, keeps us from being
free and knowing ourselves, that’s the real
pilgrimage. That’s what lasts.”
An unusual topic and profound faith
combine to make a beautiful but quiet
movie about a group of strangers, each
with metaphorical
baggage, who
form a miniature
Christian community as they travel
together. The only
thing they have in
common is deep
need that can only
be filled with
something
greater than
themselves. Like
other films about

faith that have been released this fall, the
movie feels unfamiliar but ends up being a
true, moving, and profound experience.
The same could be said of actual pilgrimage as well.
The Way is rated - for thematic
elements, drug use, and smoking.
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major schools of thought in appendices
dealing with modern sociology,
“scientific” sociology, and other models.
In that way Redeeming Sociology is
the opposite of a book that explores
another field needing redemption: The
Death and Life of American Journalism,
by Robert McChesney and John Nichols
(Nation, ). The title made me think
that the book might show an awareness
of resurrection, but it instead proposes a
Night of the Living Dead: government
subsidies of the press so that dinosaur
newspapers, and journalists’ jobs,
would be saved.

[Poythress] emphasizes
godly ways to exercise
love and generosity,
contrasting them with
bureaucratic
egalitarianism.
McChesney and
Nichols … profess to
believe that a
government takeover of
journalism would not lead
to government control.
McChesney and Nichols properly
scorn the th-century idea that journalists would be “neutral professionals,”
but they profess to believe that a government takeover of journalism would not
lead to government control. They want
Washington to “establish an office to
oversee and coordinate the rapid transition of failing corporate newspapers ...
into post-corporate newspapers ... with
strict control on the official role to guard
against censorship and abuses of the
public trust.” Power without abuse?

Want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge or
Florida swampland?
The authors are either naïve or
dissembling: “We would never advocate
‘reforms’ that provided the slightest
opening for censorious practices.” Yet
they suggest that government “might
create incentives to get bad players off
the field—by selling newspapers at fair
(rather than inflated) prices to more
responsible owners, unions, or community groups.” (Who determines the
“fair” price? Who defines “responsible”?) McChesney and Nichols also
propose “establishment of a ‘journalism’
division of AmeriCorps, the federal
program that places young people with
nonprofits to get training and do
public-service work.”
That last could have as many as
, young journalists in training to be
paid , per year. Given the way
government works, they’d probably be
in training to become propagandists.
There’s more: McChesney and Nichols
propose that “the
government pay half
the salary of every
reporter and editor
up to , each,”
and give more money
to television and radio
stations so that they
would hire experienced reporters laid
off from newspapers.
One other idea of theirs, for a
“Citizenship News Voucher”—every
American adult gets a  voucher to
use for donating to a nonprofit news
medium—would be sweet for ,
but every other industry could then
come up with reasons for having its
own vouchers, and government control
problems also loom. Besides, the
authors propose raising money for their
schemes through new and higher taxes
on consumer electronics, cellphones,
broadcasting, and advertising. A

S    are
such key fields, I keep looking for
Christian books in those areas that
thoughtfully challenge established
orthodoxies. In the decade since /,
though, we’ve often seen more books by
Christians that seem prepared with the
goal of gaining secular acceptance. This
leaves them like seed tossed on rocky
ground, springing up with charm in
chapter  but withering by the end.
The better way is to start with the
Bible and then see what in secular
studies corroborates scriptural
perspective. By beginning in good soil,
a few Christian
academic books
produce a crop of
flavorful ideas—and
one example of such is
Redeeming Sociology
by Vern Poythress
(Crossway, ), a
book that stays true
to its subtitle: A GodCentered Approach.
That’s the right approach, especially
because current sociology is so left-wing.
With any book that wins approving
nods from sociologists likely to be
worthless, a wise Christian writer starts
typing with the understanding that
faithfulness will bring him no academic
glory. Westminster Theological
Seminary professor Poythress glorifies
God from the start by showing how any
good societal relationships we have
reflect that of the Trinity.
Then, instead of tracing secular
theories and seeing how he can add
some God-flavoring, Poythress step by
step takes us through God’s covenant,
God’s government, and God’s definition
of good diversity. He emphasizes godly
ways to exercise love and generosity,
contrasting them with bureaucratic
egalitarianism. Instead of making
contemporary sociological theory the
core of his book, he dispatches the

God Is Red Liao Yiwu
Chinese writer and activist Liao Yiwu has served jail time for
his work documenting life on the fringe of Chinese society. In
Red he describes his travels deep inside China to
God is Red,
interview Christian survivors of the Cultural Revolution.
Although he is not a believer, he says these trips “have
exhilarated me, lifting me out of my drunken depression. The
stories of heroic Christians ... have inspired me.” He lets his
subjects tell their own stories in heartbreaking detail. Many of
them speak of the foreign missionaries who introduced the
gospel to their villages. Introductory essays provide evocative
descriptions of remote towns and villages. Liao Yiwu provides
important insights into China’s recent past and shows the
connections between that past and the remarkable growth of the church today.
From the Garden to the City John Dyer
This excellent short book is an introduction to media ecology,
an area of study that looks at how technology works in
cultures and changes cultures as it changes us. Since all of us
use technology and live in a world shaped by it, it is important
that we become more discerning about it. Dyer brings a
solidly Christian perspective to the topic, arguing that
technology is neither neutral nor evil, and that Christians need
to ground their analysis of it in the Bible and its story of
redemption. The book is lively and accessible to techies and
non-techies alike. It offers help in answering a crucial question:
“How then should the Christian live in a technological age?”

Chai Ling
Chai Ling was one of the student leaders at Tiananmen
Square. After the government’s brutal crackdown, she went
into hiding and eventually made her way to the United States.
In this memoir, she explains how the daughter of two military
doctors from a rural village in China came to be a student in
Beijing and involved in the democracy movement. It also
explains how she went to Princeton, earned an  from
Harvard, and built a successful company. Happily married with
three children, she seemed to put her Chinese life behind her.
But God had other plans. The memoir explains how she
became a Christian and concerned with fighting for the
victims of China’s one-child policy.

Out of the Far Corners Peter Iliyn
Peter Iliyn grew up hearing his father, Vanya, tell stories of
escape at the age of  from Soviet Kazakhstan, and of his life
as an orphan in China. Those stories shaped Iliyn’s life. He
writes in the afterword that he grew up thinking, “l like God
because he took care of my daddy.” In this book he tells those
stories using Vanya’s words, which convey the certainty that
miracles happen, and the bewilderment experienced by a
rejected child—why his foster mother hates him and beats
him when he can’t find the eggs, for instance. The book shows
scenes of great injustice, but also shows God’s presence and
grace in the midst of it.
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SPOTLIGHT
In The Executive Unbound (Oxford
University Press, ), law professors Eric A. Posner and Adrian
Vermeule show how executive
branch power ballooned in the last
century as congressional and
judicial oversight waned. The
Madisonian separation of powers is
now a “historical curiosity,” they write. But
no need for the public
to be afraid: Politics
and public opinion still
constrain presidents.
Like doctors who
prescribe aspirin for
cancer, the authors are
right about the unnerving growth of the administrative
state but fail to grasp the need for
strong medicine. Sinful men
unrestrained tend to abuse power.
President Obama campaigned
against Bush-era anti-terror
strategies, but essays in
Confronting Terror (Encounter
Books, ) show that he has
embraced the same policies. His
morning security briefing must be
terrifying. This collection of essays,
edited by Dean Reuter and John
Yoo, provides a helpful overview of
the issues, written by contributors
such as John Ashcroft on the right,
and ex- president Nadine
Strossen on the left. —Les Sillars

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Candidate

Caın

From running businesses to fighting cancer,
HERMAN CAIN brings a wealth of experience
to his run for the Republican presidential nomination
By Marvin OlaSKy

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precious life is, and we know not
the day that it could be gone. I had
been blessed to achieve my
American dreams and then some. I
just wanted to be comfortable. I
know the reason I am now totally
cancer free—the chance of survival
was only 30 percent—is because
God wanted me to do something
different than stay in cruise control
the rest of my life. I never grew up
wanting to be president of the
United States. I didn’t seriously
think about running until Barack Obama
became president and I watched him beginning to destroy this nation and weaken
America.
President Obama talks about job
creation from politicians, but he has no
business experience. What has your
substantial experience taught you
about job creation? I’ve learned that (1) if
you remove barriers to entrepreneurial
creativity, jobs will be created and (2) the
best job creators will always be the business
owners who connect the best with their
people.
How did you improve performance at
Burger King? Only 100 of the 450 were
company-owned, which meant that my
ideas had to be compelling and the owners
needed to clearly see how it was going to

benefit their business. I couldn’t change the
Whopper. I couldn’t dictate the national
advertiser. The one thing that a leader can
always do in any situation is change the
attitude of the organization.
So how did you change the attitude?
Often leaders assume that people in their
organization know what the keys to success
are. No they don’t. Gallup research has
shown for decades that only 42 percent of
workers worldwide know exactly what is
expected of them. We needed a list of
guiding principles. President Reagan was
famous for saying peace through strength.
My guiding principle is, peace through
strength and clarity. Employees need to
understand that. Another thing that helps
people to be self-motivated is spontaneous
unexpected praise—that-a-boy, that-a-

ChaRliE NEiBERgall/aP

Herman Cain won a surprise
victory in the Sept. 24 Florida straw
poll, winning 37 percent of the 2,600
votes cast. Since then he has risen
rapidly in public opinion polls and on Oct. 6
was in the top three, alongside Mitt
Romney and Rick Perry.
Cain, 65, has a master’s degree from
Purdue in computer science but learned—
from supervising 450 Philadelphia-area
Burger Kings and becoming Ceo of
Godfathers Pizza—that business management is more art than science. So is marriage:
Cain’s has lasted 43 years so far. Here are
edited excerpts from an interview that
occurred last month at a worLD Donors
Weekend in Asheville.
Five years ago you learned that you
had Stage 4 cancer in your colon and
liver. Thankfully, it’s gone now, but how
did you take the news? I didn’t even know
what it was, so I asked the surgeon, “What
is Stage 4?” His exact words were: “That’s
as bad as it can get.” He was perfectly blunt
with me. He challenged my faith, and one of
the things that strengthened my faith was
when I looked at my wife when we were
getting in the car leaving the surgeon’s
office, and I said, “I can get through this.”
She said, “We can get through this.”
Did that lead to your current campaign? It made me painfully aware of how
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girl—every seven days. Every seven days
compliment your people spontaneously. If
you can’t catch them doing something right
in seven days, you’ve got another problem.
How would that apply to being president of the United States? I talk about
commonsense solutions. I intentionally make
them easy to be understood by the general
public. If the people understand it, they will
support it and they will demand it. That’s
my 9-9-9 economic growth and jobs plan.
Throw out the current tax code. Replace it
with a 9 percent corporate tax, a 9 percent
tax on personal income, and a 9 percent
national sales tax. The payroll tax, the capital gains tax, and the death tax all go away.
The income tax started out very
small. If we made such a switch, adding
a 9 percent national sales tax, what’s to
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keep it at 9-9-9 rather than 20-20-20? As
part of the legislation, we’d require a twothirds vote of the Senate to raise the 9-9-9.
The other thing is, the 9-9-9 plan is phase
one of my economic vision. Phase 2 would
be to totally replace that with a straight
national sales tax called the fair tax. It
would also require a two-thirds vote of the
Senate to touch that.
You speak of gaining popular support
for that proposal and others, but the
experience of recent presidents has
been that the people are very fickle. I
interpret the old military saying “KISS,” to
mean Keep it Sweet and Simple. The
previous presidents, including our current
one, have complicated matters. People are
trying to take care of their families and run
their businesses. They don’t have time to

read a 2,700-page piece of legislation. I will introduce legislation
that is easier to understand. I will
appoint cabinet members with
leadership experience, problem
solving experience, business
experience. In the current
administration, 7 to 8 percent of
the appointees have business,
real-world experience. In the
Cain administration over 90 percent of the people will have had
a real job in the private sector.
You’ve been debating
other presidential candidates.
Would you put any of them in
your cabinet? Yes. I would
respectfully request Speaker
Gingrich to be secretary of
State. … I would ask Mitt Romney
to consider two jobs: chairman of
the Federal Reserve Board of
Governors or Treasury secretary. I
would give Paul Ryan those same
two options also. Representative
Michele Bachmann—yes, I could
see her being in a Herman Cain
cabinet, but I haven’t figured out
what position yet. I have a lot of
respect for her.
You’ve talked about S.I.N.
among liberals—shift the
subject, ignore the facts,
name-calling. Do you ever see
S.I.N. among conservatives?
That’s deep, doc. Not all conservatives are created equal so
there are some that will try shift the subject
and ignore the facts—but you don’t have a
lot of name-calling coming from conservatives like we have coming from liberals.
I’ll go deeper. What difference does it
make whether a person believes in
evolution or a person believes that God
created the world? None. I happen to be a
believer, and I believe that God created the
world.… My faith I put right front and center.
And I won’t apologize for it. I realize there
are some people who do not share my faith;
that’s why this country was created. So to
try to make an issue out of “Do you believe
what’s in the Bible about God creating the
earth and universe vs. the evolutionary
theory?”—I don’t think that’s relevant to
turning this economy around and protecting this nation. A
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trying to forget the
wages of those
sins), “House for
Sale” (about trying
to flee those
wages),
“Sensitive
Man” and “You
Don’t Know Me
at All” (about
trying to shift
the blame)—
each dramatizes the
moment when
one comes to his
senses only to realize that he’s come to his senses too late.
T   the young Nick Lowe
magic, however, will prefer Rockpile’s
Live at Montreux  (Eagle Rock), a
-tracks-in--minutes document of
just how rockin’ the band that he co-led
with Dave Edmunds could be on a good
night. The group was ostensibly promoting its first (and only) studio album,
Seconds of Pleasure. But only Tracks One
and Two from that album—both of them
obscure covers—were in the setlist, as if
the band’s real concerns lay elsewhere.
In fact, they did. For
some time, Lowe’s and
YOUNG MAGIC: Rockpile
members (from left) Terry
Williams, Lowe, Edmunds,
and Bremner in .

Edmunds’ “solo” efforts had been
Rockpile recordings in disguise, and
it’s material from these records (three
from Lowe’s first two solo albums, 
from Edmunds’ first six) to which the
band devoted its considerable onstage
energy on the July  night that this
show was taped.
And lest anyone accuse the band of
enhancing that energy by following the
(still) standard industry practice of rerecording parts of the show after the
fact, the producers at Eagle Rock have
left intact every aural glitch—
most notably the insufficient
levels of Lowe’s mic. In the
many places where he’s supposed to be harmonizing with
Edmunds and Billy Bremner,
he all but disappears.
The good news is that he’s
audible enough when he sings
lead. He thereby ensured that
“So It Goes”—the first lines of
which are “I remember the kid cut
off his right arm / in a bid to save a
bit of power” and seem prophetic at
a time during which developed
nations are cutting off their technological noses for the same reason—
lives on in yet another incarnation. A

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“I’    ,” sings
Nick Lowe on the second cut of
his latest album, The Old Magic
(Yep Roc). “Lord, I never thought
I’d see .” Since recording that line,
he’s turned , but as
“” isn’t a rhyme,
he can easily bring
the song up to date
should he ever perform it live.
And no doubt his
astonishment at
having reached
whatever ripe old age he’ll be
when he does perform it will only
grow. He did, after all, cover the Faron
Young hit “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die
Young” in  when, as an alcoholic
and the soon-to-be ex-husband of
Carlene Carter, he was still adhering to
the first two parts of that song’s
advice. In short, he’s been living on
what he apparently considers borrowed
time for several decades now.
During that period, he has become
rich (thanks to Curtis Stigers’ windfallgenerating cover of his “[What’s So
Funny ’Bout] Peace, Love, and
Understanding” on the multi-platinum
soundtrack to The Bodyguard), mellow,
and wise. He’s perfected on a series of
albums an elegantly reflective and primarily acoustic style that draws upon
and blends mid-th-century country
and jazz to quietly stunning effect.
Indeed, the strongest songs on The
Old Magic seem to have been written with the Frank Sinatra of In
the Wee Small Hours, September of
My Years, and She Shot Me Down
in mind, melancholy masterpieces
that span a quarter of a century
and whose timelessness Lowe has
tapped into. “Stoplight Roses”
(about crossing the line between
venial and mortal sins against
romance), “I Read a Lot” (about

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NOTABLE CDs

Five noteworthy new releases > reviewed by  

Songs and Stories Guy Clark
Like Billy Joe Shaver only less so, Guy Clark is what
many non-Texans think of when they think of Texas
songwriter’s songwriters: a sentimental sweetheart
beneath a gruff, salty exterior who’s capable of
condensing the universals to their pith and setting
them to simple melodies that make them impossible
to forget. On a good night, he might even spin a few
yarns that tie everything together. This album
captures just such a night, hence its title. Prairie
Home Companion wouldn’t have been wide of the
mark either.
Artificial Heart Jonathan Coulton
Coulton is currently on tour with They Might Be
Giants, and it’s easy to see how he got the gig. Like
 he specializes in setting witty, nerd’s-eyeview observations of life’s nooks and crannies to
melodies bouncy enough for kids. His vocabulary,
however, presumes adulthood, from his vulgarities
(two) to songs called “Nemeses” and “Je Suis Rick
Springfield.” And while kids might giggle at
“Glasses,” you definitely have to be old enough to
know better to get “Today with Your Wife” and
“Alone at Home.”
SuperHeavy SuperHeavy
The “Super” comes from “supergroup,” rock slang
for “all-star team.” The “Heavy” comes from the
’s term for “Wow, man, that’s deep.” Unfortunately,
this music only feels heavy as in “overweight,”
with reggae-isms courtesy of Damian Marley,
Bollywood-isms courtesy of A.R. Rahman, guitars
courtesy of Dave Stewart, over-singing courtesy
of Joss Stone and Mick Jagger, and kitchen sink
courtesy of the other dozen-plus credited
musicians crammed into nearly every song.
The standard edition has  songs, the deluxe
. Both prove more is less.

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An Appointment with Mr. Yeats
The Waterboys
If Iron Maiden’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
could make Coleridge fans of lumpen proles, who’s
to say Mike Scott’s transformation of these 
poems into cabaret-folk won’t bear similar fruit
where Yeats is considered? Scott forgoes most of
the more-anthologized poems, but he does do
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (as a blues) and “The
Song of Wandering Aengus” (as the intense
meditation upon mystery that it is). And if you
think his singing overdramatizes the material, wait till
you hear Yeats reading it.
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SPOTLIGHT
Those who recoil upon encountering the computerized, Auto-Tuned
sheen of [Re]Production
(Gigatone), the newest album by
Todd Rundgren,
Rundgren should consider
that Neil Young tried something
similar in  with Trans, an
album almost universally reviled at
the time but
whose charms
have gradually
come to the
fore. And
Rundgren’s
album has an
edge: Whereas
Trans contained
only one vintage Young remake,
[Re]Production finds Rundgren
revisiting hits and “deep album
cuts” that he produced for other
performers.
Whether anyone will ever
prefer his technocratic “Two Out
of Three Ain’t Bad,” “Personality
Crisis,” or “Love My Way” to the
originals by Meat Loaf, New York
Dolls, or Psychedelic Furs, respectively, is doubtful. And the atheism
anthem “Dear God” sounds even
more petulant coming from him
than it did coming from . But,
because the material is strong andor catchy, these versions, like his
electric versions of Robert Johnson
songs from earlier this year, at
least have the capacity to surprise.

OCTOBER 22, 2011

WORLD



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Mindy Belz

Into the
upheaval
A plea for eyes to see
and feet to go

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aren’t wearing burqas in their profile photos. Several
of them asked me, an infidel, to friend them.
A young Afghan who has become a Christian told
me, “I know the people. Like myself they are born
in war and have spent their lives in war. It is the
same everywhere and then we die in war … with no
specific activity and no vision. What was all of it
for?” Decade upon decade of war, he said, has made
Afghans “dull in their thinking,” and they need
help to find purpose and meaning in their lives.
His words, to me, suggest plowed ground, a field
ready for planting. Yet for me and my fellow
Christians in the West, too often we put more faith
in the headlines from this place���boasting of insurgency, casualty figures, and the futility of the U.S.
mission—than we do in the words of Jesus Christ,
whose Great Commission begins with the call, “Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations.”
When horses and chariots sent by the King of
Syria surrounded Elisha at Dothan, the prophet’s
servant despaired. And Elisha prayed for God to
“open his eyes that he may see.” And the servant
saw horses and chariots of fire protecting Elisha.
Then the prophet prayed for the Syrian army to be
struck blind, and it failed to see Elisha as he led
the unseeing troops into the midst of Samaria. So,
surrounded by Israel’s army, the king of Israel
ordered the army not to strike the Syrians but to
feed them a great feast and send them away. Thus
were they so thoroughly confounded that Scripture
says the Syrian army “did not come again on raids
into the land of Israel” ( Kings :).
There was no pitched battle, no bribes, no vexing
diplomacy. All that happened to turn war into peace
in Elisha’s day was this: God opened the eyes of His
people to see and struck blind His enemies. A

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K, A—
What if things aren’t as
they appear? What if
headlines blare a surface
realism but ignore a truer
reality?
On the surface it looks like
 will grow only more
chaotic, nonsensical. Greece
teeters toward government
default, but its parliament just voted, -, to
put  million in government funds toward a new
mega-mosque. Muslims in Tunisia, where Arab
street revolts began, are attempting to take over
ancient churches and turn them into mosques.
Iranians want to hang pastor Youcef Nakarkhani for
the crime of protesting the teaching of Islam to
Christian schoolchildren.
The West looks loony, too. We just enacted major
social change in the U.S. military—allowing gays to
serve openly as homosexuals—in the midst of two of
the longest-running wars in our history. In England
the vaunted  is ditching the terms  and 
that might “offend or alienate non-Christians” in
favor of  and  (“Before the Common Era” and
“Common Era”). These, it said, are “religiously
neutral” alternatives. (It took the former Anglican
bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, to point out
the obvious: “Whether you use Common Era or
Anno Domini, the date is actually still the same and
the reference point is still the birth of Christ.”)
But what if in the midst of all that it turns out all
is not being lost in Christendom but much may be
gained? What if the ground around us is being
plowed to make way for important works of service
and evangelism, to carry out more of the Great
Commission and advance the kingdom of God?
Take Afghanistan, where I have been traveling
now for some days. In many quarters, especially
among young people, the disillusionment with
Islamic movements of all shades is palpable. The
Afghans speak more openly than I have heard before.
They deride whole communities as “fundamentalists”
and have no time for the Taliban. Young men in their
s showed me their Facebook pages, where they
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A god
of our
age

CREDIT

Who was Steve Jobs?

A revered technology pioneer and a
relentless innovator, the Apple founder
remained in many ways a mystery
by M a rv i n O l a s ky
Rosebud.
Seventy years ago Orson Welles directed Citizen Kane, which critics still praise as the
most innovative film ever. Welles modeled the main character, Kane, on a famous northern
California magnate who revolutionized the media of his day, William Randolph Hearst.
“Rosebud” was Kane’s dying declaration, and the narrative structure of the film emphasized
the work of a reporter trying to figure out the meaning of that word and the meaning of
Kane’s life. Everyone he interviewed saw Kane through the prism of his own preoccupations.
The reporter ended up much like the blind man feeling different parts of the elephant and
thinking he’s in the presence of a tree trunk, a snake—or something else.
When Steve Jobs died on Oct. 5, newspapers and airwaves (along with iPhones and iPads)
were flush with accounts of the Apple founder’s life and legacy—but each biographer seemed
to recreate Jobs in the beholder’s own image:
Those wanting a classic American success story described Jobs as the college dropout who
co-created the first user-friendly computer and became a multimillionaire at age 25.
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10/6/11 4:35 PM

CREDIT

Jobs holds up the new
MacBook Air after giving the
keynote address at Apple
MacWorld Conference in San
Francisco on Jan. , .
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Steve JobS timeline

1972 Graduates from
Homestead High School in
Cupertino and enrolls at Reed
College in Portland, Ore., but
drops out after one semester

1974 Takes a job at Atari in
Sunnyvale, Calif.; leaves to
travel through India and joins a
farm commune

1975 Joins Homebrew
Computer Club, headed by
Steve Wozniak, and persuades
Wozniak to go into a business
based on Wozniak’s design for
a new computer logic board
dubbed Apple 1

1976 Founds
Apple Computer

1977 Introduces
Apple II

1980 Takes Apple public—

1998 Releases the iMac, which

at the end of its first day’s
trading Apple has a market
value of $1.2 billion, so his
stock is worth $239 million

becomes the fastest-selling
personal computer in history

1981 Becomes Apple
chairman

1983 Recruits John
Sculley from Pepsi to be
the CEO of Apple

1984 Introduces the
Macintosh, an all-in-one desktop computer with a graphical
interface and a mouse

1985 Clashes with the Apple
board, which backs Sculley
and ousts him

1986 Works on developing
NeXT, a high-end
computer, and buys
Pixar Animation
Studios for $10 million
from filmmaker
George Lucas

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1991 Marries Laurene Powell
1995 Releases the hit film
Toy Story, the first Pixar movie
with Disney, and becomes a
billionaire when Pixar goes
public
1996 Sells NeXT to Apple
for $400 million and rejoins
Apple as an advisor
1997 Becomes interim
CEO after the Apple board ousts
CEO Gil Amelio

CEO of Apple and introduces
Mac OS X, its current operating
system, based on the NeXT
operating system

2001 Launches the Apple Store
to bolster retail sales and introduces the iPod, a music
player that revolutionizes the digital music
industry

2003 Launches the
iTunes Music Store

2004 Undergoes surgery for
pancreatic cancer

his birth in 1955. “My parents, who were on a waiting list, got
a call in the middle of the night asking: ‘We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?’ They said: ‘Of course.’”
For parents with hyperactive children he was the child
rushed to the emergency room after ingesting a bottle of ant
poison, and the one who received a bad shock by sticking a
bobby pin into a wall socket.
For those with children born out of wedlock he was a man
who initially denied paternity and refused to pay child support
for his first daughter Lisa, but eventually accepted her and
helped her to become a New York writer.
Still other observers emphasized his style and beliefs:
To romantics he was the romantic who gave a lecture to a
class of Stanford business students, noticed a good-looking
woman in the front row, chatted her up, headed to his car, and
… “I was in the parking lot with the key in the car, and I
thought to myself, ‘If this is my last night on earth, would I
rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman?’ I
ran across the parking lot, asked her if she’d have dinner with
me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we’ve been
together ever since.”
To marriage advocates he was the man who married that
woman in a small ceremony at Yosemite National Park 20
years ago, and stayed married as they bore and raised three
children.

jOBs wiTh maC: BERnaRd GOTfRyd/GETTy imaGEs • applE imaGEs: nEwsCOm

Those crafting a moral tale about never giving up wrote of
how Jobs, booted from Apple at age 30, gained even greater
financial and artistic success by propelling Pixar (Toy Story),
regaining control of Apple, and making it not only one of the
most valuable U.S. companies but perhaps the most loved.
Workaholics called him a workaholic who loved his work
and said so: “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe
is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love
what you do. … Like any great relationship, it just gets better
and better as the years roll on.”
The Harvard Business Review called Jobs the “world’s greatest philanthropist” even though he wasn’t much of a donor:
“What a loss to humanity it would have been if Jobs had
dedicated the last 25 years of his life to figuring out how to
give his billions away, instead of doing what he does best.
We’d still be waiting for a cell phone on which we could
actually read e-mail and surf the web. … We’d be a decade or
more away from the iPad, which has ushered in an era of
reading electronically that promises to save a Sherwood Forest
worth of trees and all of the energy associated with trucking
them around.”
Other writers focused on Jobs’ personal life:
For adoption advocates he was an adoptee who made it big.
His biological mom and dad placed him for adoption soon after

To a neighbor writing in a Palo Alto paper, he was “a regular
guy, a good dad having fun with his kids. The next time I met
him was when our children attended school together. He sat in
on back-to-school night listening to the teacher drone on about
the value of education. … I saw him at his son’s high school
graduation. There Steve stood, tears streaming down his
cheeks, his smile wide and proud, as his son received his
diploma.”
To Buddhists and vegetarians he was a fellow-follower of
the principles of minimalism, almost always appearing in
public in a black turtleneck and worn jeans.

D

       of Jobs’ life, some
conservatives were not immune to the tendency to see
him largely in connection with their own campaigns:
Jobs was a hero in June  when he banned
most pornography from his devices: One blogger called that
decision antagonistic to freedom, but Jobs replied that he
wanted “freedom from porn.” Tony Perkins of the Family
Research Council punned, “We’re grateful that Jobs is trying to
keep the iPad from becoming an eyesore.”
He was a villain six months later, in December , when
Apple banned an app for the Manhattan Declaration that urged
opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. The National
Organization for Marriage produced a -second video that

depicted Jobs as the censorious “Big Brother” featured in
Apple’s famous  ad.
So who was Steve Jobs? Reportedly, young Jobs was confirmed in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, but he spoke
later of his desire to “make a dent in the universe”—and did
not want God to make a dent in him. At the first Apple
Halloween costume party, Jobs reportedly dressed up as Jesus.
Was he attempting to be commercially omniscient—he said he
knew what consumers wanted before they knew it—and
omnipotent, making any product he produced a hit?
I see him also as wanting to be the outsider who would
enter a town and tame it, like the classic Western hero. His
Buddhist twist would have fit him well for the odd western 
series that hit the airwaves when Jobs was a teenager, Kung
Fu,
Fu the story of a monk who travels through th-century
western America and survives through spiritual training and
martial arts skill.
But I may be as wrong as everyone else attempting to characterize an individual who cherished his privacy. Maybe the
best approach is to get the words closest to “Rosebud” that
Jobs ever uttered in public—his Stanford commencement
speech in , one year after his first encounter with cancer.
On that day, whistling past the graveyard, he described death
as “very likely the best invention of life. All pride, all fear of
embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the
face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
One problem, though, is that he never clarified to listeners
what is truly important. He did tell the Stanford graduates,
“Follow your heart. ... Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is
living with the results of other people’s thinking. … Have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
Did Jobs remain a rebel against his youthful Lutheranism
and the belief that our hearts are fallen? Did he ever realize
that the thinking of some wise people, and especially that of a
wise God, would help? Did Jobs ever come to grips with even
three of the questions God hurls at the biblical Job: “Where
were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Have the
gates of death been revealed to you? Where is the way to the
dwelling of light?”
If Jobs’ devotees were waiting for a final revelation from
him as he approached death, it doesn’t seem that one came.
Jobs was one of the gods of our age, conquering the computer
world and fostering vehicles for new media in a way even
grander than that of Citizen Kane/William Randolph Hearst.
Through God’s common grace Jobs’ creations improved life.
But he could not conquer death.
Left unfulfilled were not only those curious about what
Jobs’ Rosebud might be, but his biological father, Abdulfattah
John Jandali, an -year-old Syrian immigrant who is now a
casino vice-president in Reno, Nev.
Several weeks before Jobs’ death, newspapers quoted
Jandali saying he didn’t know until just a few years ago that
the baby he and his girlfriend placed for adoption a half-century before had become a famous billionaire. Jandali said he
had not called his son for fear Jobs would think Jandali was
after his fortune, but he hoped Jobs would call him someday:
“I just live in hope that, before it is too late, he will reach out
to me, because even to have just one coffee with him just once
would make me a very happy man.”
Apparently, that meeting never happened. A
OCTOBER 22, 2011

Should politicians pick business winners and
losers? The Solyndra debacle is a black eye for
those who say yes, but the practice is bipartisan
and widespread not only in Washington but
in Mississippi, Texas, and other states

sat question:

How do you explain the Obama
administration’s $528 million loan to solar panel manufacturer
Solyndra, now bankrupt?
A Corruption. Major Obama donor/Solyndra investor George Kaiser—through his George
`

Kaiser Family Foundation—made four visits to the White House on March 12 and 13,
2009. He says he did not discuss the Solyndra loan there.
B Patriotic wisdom. President Barack Obama said on Oct. 3, “Not every single business is
`
going to succeed in clean energy, but if we want to compete with China … we’ve got to
make sure our guys here in the United States of America at least have a shot.”
C “Mistakes were made.” Some people goofed—but avoid personal responsibility by
`
phrasing this in the passive voice.
D Governmental arrogance. Bureaucrats are bad at picking winners and losers,
`
particularly when it comes to start-up companies.

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Answer key:
A May be correct, since the Department of
`
Energy reportedly fast-tracked the Solyndra
loan, over objections that the company was too
risky, and announced it two weeks after
Kaiser’s visits.
B The Obama administration is sticking to this
`
free-spending position. The U.S. Department of
Energy just rushed through $4.7 billion more in
loans for solar energy companies to beat a
midnight deadline Sept. 30, when the fiscal
year ended.
C Plenty of evidence for this. Regarding Solyndra,
`
it’s not only that “hindsight is always 20-20,”
as President Obama said: “People felt like this
was a good bet.” Staffers at the Office of
Management and Budget had early concerns.
Forbes on Sept. 17 headlined one story, “Yes, It
Was Possible to See This Failure Coming,” and
explained how Solyndra right from the beginning was non-competitive in pricing against
not only other kinds of energy providers, but
even against other solar panel manufacturers.
D Probably the best answer, as even Obama
`
administration members and associates sometimes admit privately. In December 2009,
Solyndra investor Brad Jones sent a worried
email to President Obama’s top economic
adviser at the time, Larry Summers. Jones
wrote about the Obama administration’s first
year of dispensing largesse: “The allocation of
spending to clean energy is haphazard; the
government is just not well equipped to decide
which companies should get the money and
how much.” Summers responded, “I relate well
to your concern that gov is a crappy vc [venture
capitalist] and if u were closer to it you’d feel more
strongly.”

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BaRBOuR: ROgEliO v. sOlis/ap • Twin CREEks: amy mcCullOugh

One problem facing the United States, though, is that
“crony capitalism” and governmental picking of winners and
losers are roiling not only the White House: Many state governors and their associates are trying to do on a smaller scale
what Team Obama has done big-time. They generally fare as
poorly. U.S. solar manufacturers SpectraWatt (which received
New York taxpayer funds) and Evergreen Solar (Massachusetts
taxpayer funds) declared bankruptcy weeks prior to
Solyndra’s collapse.
Since it’s easy for Republicans to blast Obama and for
newspapers to cover Washington misdeeds, WORLD decided to
look beyond the Beltway at two governors who have tried to
pick winners and losers. We examined the record of one
Republican governor with stellar corporate connections,
Mississippi’s Haley Barbour, who has not been dogged by a
full-court press. We then reviewed the pickings of Texas
governor Rick Perry that are now being examined in the light
of his presidential candidacy.

aRbOuR, fORmeR chaiRman of the Republican
National Committee, is well-connected: For years
before becoming governor in 2004 he was a
Washington lobbyist for major corporations ranging
from Philip Morris to Microsoft. During the past
year and a half he has brought six green energy manufacturers
to Mississippi with taxpayer-backed loans totaling $400 million.
The loans will be funded with bonds in a state where the total
fiscal year 2011 budget is $4.5 billion.
The six companies receiving loans—Twin Creeks
Technologies, Soladigm, Stion, KiOR, Calisolar, and HCL
Cleantech—do not appear to have direct ties to the Barbour
administration, though Calisolar’s chairman, John Correnti, is
a friend of Barbour’s. The loans seem strange in that The Wall
Street Journal in March quoted Barbour’s disapproval of the
Obama’s administration’s green energy funding: “The federal
government too often is picking winners and losers. I don’t
think we should be saying we are willing to fund this kind of
energy but not that kind of energy.”
Despite that rhetoric, Barbour has placed his own bets on
manufacturers of monocrystalline and thin-film solar panels,

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10/6/11 10:47 AM

“ThE FEdERAl gOvERnMEnT
TOO OFTEn iS piCKing
winnERS And lOSERS. i
dOn’T ThinK wE ShOuld
BE SAying wE ARE willing
TO Fund ThiS Kind OF
EnERgy BuT nOT ThAT
Kind OF EnERgy.”
—Haley Barbour

BARBOuR: ROgEliO v. SOliS/Ap • Twin CREEKS: AMy McCullOugh

renewable crude,
energy-efficient
glass, solar silicon,
and bio-fuels and
bio-products. State
legislators, thinking
of the 4,550 green jobs these companies collectively promise,
have supported him. Although all six companies are venture
capital–backed, and most had no previous commercial-scale
manufacturing experience, legislators asked few questions.
Solar panel manufacturer Twin Creeks Technologies was the
first green energy company to receive a Mississippi stimulus.
FEW QUESTIONS ASKED: Barbour (top,
left) listens in August 2010 as KiOR CEO
Fred Cannon discusses the company’s
decision to locate the first of it’s biofuel
production facilities in Mississippi; the
Twin Creeks factory in Senatobia.

In April 2010, the California-based company announced its
intent to set up its first commercial-scale plant in the state
and received a $50 million loan award. Twin Creeks held its
grand opening in May of this year, but it still isn’t manufacturing a commercial product. The company has promised to
create 500 jobs over the next five years, and 180 by the end of
2011, but in June it reported having 15 employees. On Oct. 3 it
listed two job openings on its website.
Twin Creeks’ new 88,000-square-foot factory, funded with
$22 million in state dollars, sits in Senatobia. No sign or logo
identifies the plant. Twin Creeks spokesperson Tarpan Dixit
says the plant is not in commercial production but in “validation mode” and waiting for certification—but that’s not the
message conveyed by state officials. At Twin Creeks’
grand opening in May, Barbour said he was
“delighted to celebrate the start of production” at the
factory. In September Kathy Gelston, chief financial
officer of the Mississippi Development Authority—
the state’s economic development agency—said the
factory was producing “sellable panels.”
Tate County Economic Development Foundation
director J.E. Mortimer recently toured the factory
and saw the equipment: “We are still looking for
really good things from this company. … Solyndra is
nothing at all like Twin Creeks.” Gelston has said the
green energy companies can only use the loans for
building and equipment, so taxpayers have collateral
if any of the companies collapse. But she admits that the
Authority hasn’t assessed the forced liquidation value of the
assets, should a fire sale become necessary.
Some involved in the Twin Creeks deal have political
connections. W.G. Yates & Sons Construction of Philadelphia,
Miss., built part of the Twin Creeks plant. Executives and
family members from W.G. Yates’ parent, The Yates Companies,
gave $25,000 to Barbour’s federal PAC in August 2010. The
Yates Companies also donated this year $10,000 of in-kind air
travel to Haley’s PAC, a Barbour fundraising arm in Georgia.
Several partners at one Twin Creeks backer, DAG Ventures, are
Republican donors. Firm co-founder John Duff Jr. gave more

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HOME RUN?
years and new supplies of cheap shale
Barbour (third from
gas have flooded the market: The
right) attends the
Department of Energy now says natural
groundbreaking for
gas costs will be low and stable for years
the clean coal plant
in Dekalb, Miss., on
to come, making this coal plant economDec. 16, 2010; Perry
ically questionable. If this holds true, the
on Election Night
plant will have imposed significant costs
last November.
on customers instead of saving them
money as promised. Plant critics point
out that Mississippi’s Baseload Act makes it possible for customers to be charged for a power plant’s construction even if it
is never completed or never works properly.
Barbour spokeswoman Laura Hipp told WORLD that alternative energy companies must “meet benchmarks before receiving
state funds” and must return the money if they violate their
contracts. She said Twin Creeks now employs only 16 people
but stated the company is only contractually “committed to
employ 500 employees within five years.” She said, “Mississippi
Power’s facility fits in perfectly with our plan to provide an
affordable, stable fuel source produced in Mississippi for
generations—not simply five or 10 years down the road.”

than $100,000 to the Republican National Committee,
and then started giving to the Democratic National
Committee.
Yates spokesman Kenny Smith said, “The Yates family
did give money to the governor’s Georgia PAC because
they were optimistic that he was going to run for president and they were supporting him in that effort. It had
absolutely nothing to do with the work at Twin Creeks.”
It’s hard to know about funding of the five other companies: Secretive hedge funds back some of the companies,
hampering transparency. One venture capital firm,
Khosla Ventures, funds four of the six green companies
that received loans from the state. Artis Capital
Management, a hedge fund with ties to Khosla, backs two
of the companies. Artis (also a backer of Solyndra) is an
intensely secretive $1 billion hedge fund. Its website is
password-protected, and its investors are unlisted. Public
filings with the SEC only reveal the company’s president
and counsel, and neither appears to have ties to the
Barbour administration. Last year Artis partner David
Lamond gave a paltry $500 to Haley’s PAC in Georgia.
Barbour has also promoted an experimental $2.4
billion clean coal plant owned by Mississippi Power
Company (MPCo.), which is part of Southern Company.
When the plant comes on line, rates for poultry farmers
will increase by more than 30 percent, and other customers also anticipate increases. (In the public electric utility
model prevalent in southeastern states, power companies
are regulated monopolies required to provide customers
with the cheapest electricity available, but they are also
private companies: Captive customers must pay for any
improvements approved by state regulators.)
The new plant idea has much to commend it: The plan
is for the plant to mine on-site, low-grade lignite coal,
insulating customers from market volatility in fuel costs.
It is likely to be the first commercial-scale power plant in
the nation to capture its carbon dioxide emissions. MPCo.
argued for the plant’s economic benefit by comparing it to the
alternative: a plant with much lower construction costs that
would run on natural gas, a fuel that has historically been
subject to significant market cost spikes.
Barbour said the new plant would be a “home run for
Mississippi,” but his backing for the project raised some eyebrows: Southern Company since 1999 has spent more than $2
million with BGR Group (formerly Barbour, Griffith & Rogers),
according to federal lobbying disclosure documents. Barbour
helped found BGR and, according to a blind trust document
filed with the Mississippi Ethics Commission, owns shares and
has a profit-sharing plan with the firm. (Barbour’s blind trust
is supposed to insulate him from conflicts of interest: Assets
are placed into a trust at the time of inauguration and kept by
a trustee away from the official’s eye.)
The new plant is being built with the help of $270 million
in U.S. Department of Energy funds that BGR helped Southern
Company to get and then hold onto, after Florida officials said
no to the building of a coal plant there. Critics of the new coal
plant note that drilling technology has advanced in recent

residential candidate Rick Perry has interwoven politics and economics throughout his 11
years as governor of Texas. WOrld noted on Sept.
10, “Big donors to Perry’s campaign have received
support for their interests in low-level radioactive
waste disposal, horseracing, poultry, new technology, and
other endeavors. As one former aide said, ‘Some fleas have
attached themselves to the dog.’”
Many Perry donors have given hundreds of thousands of
dollars and, according to studies by the Los Angeles Times, The
Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, and other newspapers, received subsidies and contracts for their businesses.
These hostile observers have been unable to prove “pay to
play” connections, though, because Texas government under
Perry’s watch has been so pro-business that many noncontributors have prospered just as much.

The Washington Post found the most frequent payoff, if there
was one, was appointment to a prestigious board like the
University of Texas regents. That’s a tradition in Texas and other
states, which is why conservative regents often enjoy their
positions and do nothing to check liberal academic dominance.
The Los Angeles Times analysis found that half of the 150
large givers to Perry over the last decade—he raised $37 million
from them—received business contracts, tax breaks, or
appointments. For example, Joe Sanderson gave $165,000 to
Perry, and his Mississippi-based company received a
$500,000 grant to open a Waco chicken hatchery and processing plant. Unrelated, since Perry has made it clear, as one
of his campaign commercials notes, that “Texas is open for
business”? Related? Observers differed.
The biggest Perry donor, clocking in at $1.1 million, is
leveraged buyout master Harold Simmons. One company he

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andrews, Texas (above); soward (right)
dissented and was not reappointed.

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owns, Waste Control Specialists
(WCS), received a license to construct
the first new low-level radioactive
waste disposal site in the United
States in three decades.
Simmons, listed by Forbes last
month as the 33rd richest American
($9.3 billion), told the Dallas Business
Journal in 2006 that WCS was losing
several million dollars a year, but
approval of a license would give the company “a fantastic
future.” Simmons said, “We first had to change the law to
where a private company can own a license, and we did that.
Then we got another law passed that said they can only issue
one license. Of course, we were the only ones that applied.”
Simmons said his company had found in west Texas “a
perfect site … with perfect geology, and the people out there
are all for it. The problem is with the bureaucracy. … But we
think the odds are highly in our favor that we will be able to
work through the bureaucracy.” His forecast was accurate: As
the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in 2007 and
2008 considered whether to give licenses to WCS, Simmons
met twice with Perry. The Commission voted 2-1 to give WCS a
go-ahead.
The dissenting member, Larry Soward, told the Los Angeles
Times that “the other two commissioners knew full well it
was a very important matter to the governor’s office.” Perry

did not reappoint Soward
when his term ended in
2009. WCS is now poised
to aggregate not only radioactive waste from 35 states
but hundreds of millions of
dollars. The ugliness or
beauty of this decision is in
the eye of the beholder: The
Times saw undue influence,
but Perry defenders say he
cut through the
bureaucracy.
During September The
Wall Street Journal joined
with Texas reporters in
questioning Perry’s connections. Unimpressed
with government’s record
in picking winners and
losers, both conservatives
and liberals examined the
Texas Emerging Technology
Fund created at Perry’s
request in 2005: It has
committed $200 million
from taxpayers to fund 133 start-ups. The Journal
noted that Perry, along with his allied lieutenant
governor and the speaker of the Texas House of
Representatives, has final decision-making authority
concerning the grants.
The Dallas Morning News found that some $16
million from the tech fund has gone to firms invested
in or run by major Perry contributors. This past
spring state auditors pushed for greater transparency
in fund management but found no evidence of fraud
or illegal activity. While Texas-sized grants have not
led to enormous losses like Solyndra’s, one medical
imaging company that received a $1.5 million award
in 2007, ThromboVision, went bankrupt last year.
Texas state Rep. David Simpson, elected in 2010 with Tea
Party support, said the fund is “fundamentally immoral and
arrogant [with] the appearance of impropriety, if not actual
impropriety.” Another Republican, state Sen. Mike Jackson,
noted “criticism about the lack of transparency and insinuations of cronyism.” The Texas House of Representatives in May
voted 89-37 to close the fund—only to have the legislature’s
conference committee keep it in business, with $140 million
more to spend.
That’s not a good conclusion, according to Michael
Sullivan, who heads Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. Sullivan
points out: “Government should not be playing the role of
venture-fund capitalist. … It’s always easy to spend other
people’s money, and especially easy to spend other people’s
money to the benefit of one’s own friends.” Taxing one
business to fund another, and forcing taxpayers to invest in
companies, is inherently unfair. A

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Take a
fresh look

Every word
matters.

Every word of Scripture matters because every word is from God and
for people. Because every word is from God, the HCSB uses words like
Yahweh (Is. 42:8), Messiah (Luke 3:15), and slave (Rev. 1:1). And because
every word of Scripture is for 21st century people, the HCSB replaces
words like “Behold” with modern terms like “Look.” For these reasons and
others, Christians across the globe are taking a fresh look at the HCSB.

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Palmetto
r r r CAMPAIGN

2012 r r r

With the
primary calendar
shifting forward,
the leading
 presidential
candidates
remain in a
surprisingly
close pack in
the important
South Carolina
race. Perry
leads national
leader Romney
but not by much,
and Cain is
gaining ground

by JAMIE DEAN in Columbia, S.C.

photo illustration by KRIEG BARRIE

PELOTON
I

 U.S. R. J W, -..,      as the
congressman who yelled, “You lie,” when President Barack Obama told
Congress that his healthcare plan wouldn’t cover illegal immigrants,
some of Wilson’s constituents aren’t ready to oblige.
During a packed town hall meeting with voters in Lexington, S.C.,
in late September, Wilson opened with grave remarks about record
unemployment and soaring national debt. But the first written question from
an audience member began with a tribute to the  incident: “Congressman
Wilson, thank you for your correct response to the president of ‘You lie.’”
The congressman—who had apologized for the timing of his outburst two
years ago—shifted uncomfortably as the Lexington crowd cheered in agreement.
But he grew more confident with the second half of the feisty question: “Can
we count on Republicans to stand up to the massive spending of the last four
years, the liberal mainstream media, and a radical president?”
Wilson had a ready answer: “We have to shift the numbers in Congress.”
But this crowd had its sights on a bigger prize, as another audience member
asked: “In your opinion, what will our country look like if the  loses
Congress and the White House next year?”
It’s a question that pinpoints the angst of many Republicans across South
Carolina and the rest of the country as the  presidential primaries loom
less than three months away. For South Carolina, the question is especially
urgent: The Republican who has won the state’s early primary contest has won
the  nomination for the last three decades.
This season, the state plans to hold its contest earlier than ever. Florida
officials upended the primary calendar in September by announcing they
would buck Republican National Committee rules that require most states to
wait until March  to conduct primaries.
When a Florida election committee announced a Jan.  contest, South
Carolina officials preserved their first-in-the-South primary by bumping their
contest from early February to Jan. . That means the three other early voting
states—Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada—will likely move their  contests
to early January, or even late December.
Since time is growing short, and what happens in South Carolina is a
crucial opening salvo in the battle for the White House, examining the race
here offers an early glimpse into Republican politics nationwide. So far, the
Palmetto State is proving this much: Economic issues are king, social issues
won’t be forgotten, and the race for conservative votes is more fluid than
many expected.
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B

y many estimates, South Carolina should be Rick Perry
country: The professing Christian and pro-life governor
of Texas embraces the Bible, babies, and barbeque.
Perry’s wife, Anita, told a packed gathering of South Carolina
voters at the grand opening of her husband’s campaign headquarters in the state capital of Columbia: “We have the same
values, we like the same food, we kinda talk the same talk.”
But in a Southern state where Perry seems like a natural fit,
the candidate finds himself in a tight contest with former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Mormon candidate polling
well in a state full of conservative evangelicals: A Winthrop
University poll released on Sept. 20 showed Perry leading
Romney in South Carolina by only 3 percentage points. Just
three weeks earlier, another poll showed Perry leading
Romney by 17 points.
That’s a significant boost for Romney: Despite heavily
investing cash and campaign time in South Carolina in the
2008 primary cycle, the presidential candidate finished fourth
here. (Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., edged out former Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee for the win.)
The narrowing gap comes after Perry’s early surge when he
entered the race in late August. The candidate’s searing poll
numbers cooled after a few weeks on the campaign trail and a
few less-than-stellar debate performances. And the Winthrop
poll deserves some historical context: During the same period
last election cycle, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
and former Sen. Fred Thompson led the race in South Carolina.
Both candidates fizzled before mid-primary season.
But despite those realities, the recent numbers at least
show that Romney is faring better in South Carolina than last
primary season, and that he’s competitive in a state where he’s
spent less time and money so far.
South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis—a conservative
Republican and a Southern Baptist—endorsed Romney in late
August. After a recent campaign breakfast in Columbia headlined by Romney’s wife, Ann, Loftis explained why he thought
the candidate had gained more traction this time around: “It’s
a different world.”
For Loftis, that difference is concentrated in an economy
that soured nationwide a few months after the GOP primary
season in 2008. The economic woes are particularly acute in
South Carolina: The state has an unemployment rate of 11.1
percent—the fourth-highest in the nation. In rural South
Carolina counties like Marion and Allendale, the unemployment rate reaches nearly 20 percent.
That crisis could help boost Romney, a candidate touting
his corporate background and business savvy. But Romney’s
not alone: Perry boasts of creating jobs as governor of Texas,
and candidates like former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman
Cain are hammering their own job-centered credentials.
While the winning candidate is still undetermined, and
other dark horse candidates could burst on the scene, for most
South Carolina voters the prevailing question is set: How do
we dig out of the economic mire?

B

ack at the town hall meeting in Lexington, that’s the
question on Darrell Harbour’s mind. Harbour owns a
small company here that relocates machinery for
industrial plants and provides heavy rigging and crane work.
He decries Obama’s argument that regulating and taxing large

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corporations more aggressively will help a struggling economy,
and he hopes for a GOP candidate who can reverse that trend.
Harbour offers a painful example: He says he lost a quarter
million dollars in purchase orders last year when some of the
large companies he services grew skittish about the economic
uncertainty. “Don’t tell me that beating up that big corporation
doesn’t affect me,” he says. “It does—and it affects my guys.”
The small business owner says that kind of uncertainty
undercuts his ability to make plans and hire more workers.
And he says increasing regulations makes business more
expensive. For example, Harbour says some of the new
machinery he bought this year came with designs imposed by
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): new (and more
expensive) fuel tanks that require using diesel exhaust fuel
(DEF) along with regular diesel fuel to reduce smog. “So I just
paid $128,000 for a tractor that I have to buy DEF fluid for and
put it in with the diesel fuel to make EPA regulations,” he says.
“And it costs $4 a gallon, plus the diesel fuel price.”
But like other voters here, Harbour says he isn’t sure which
GOP candidate could best tackle the kind of economic problems
that hound South Carolina and the rest of the country. “The
only one that’s made any comments that make a lot of sense
was Herman Cain, and unfortunately
I don’t think he’s going to be up
CAROLINA ON THEIR MINDS:
there in the running,” he says. But a
week later Cain began a quick rise in
Romney speaks to a group of
polls nationally.
small business owners at meetze
plumbing in irmo, s.C. (ab0ve);
During the town hall meeting,
perry greets locals during a
the crowd burst into applause when
campaign stop at Bazen’s Family
Rep. Wilson mentioned Cain’s tax
Restaurant in Florence, s.C.
reform plan. Afterwards, local
resident Barbara Burchfield said
she’s intrigued by Cain, but hasn’t settled on a candidate. But
she does know that she’s most concerned about the economy:
“We’d like to see the government run more like a household—
if you don’t have the money, you don’t spend it.” And she
believes something else: “The silent majority isn’t going to be
silent anymore.”

W

hether Republican voters will prevail as the
majority next November isn’t clear, though a recent
ABC/Washington Post poll showed that the majority
of voters expect Obama to lose the 2012 election. That dynamic
has added fresh enthusiasm for GOP voters eager to nominate a
candidate who’s not only electable in a general election, but
desirable on a wide range of conservative issues.
In South Carolina, those voters include a broad swath of
evangelicals and social conservatives who say that while the
economy dominates the election cycle, social issues like
abortion and gay marriage remain a deep concern.
For Romney—a self-proclaimed pro-life candidate who has
struggled to overcome his pro-abortion past—that may mean
significant hurdles with some voters here: The Winthrop poll
showed Perry with a double-digit lead over Romney among
evangelical voters in the state.
Ray Moore—a longtime conservative Christian activist in
South Carolina—says he thinks Romney will face a steep
challenge with social conservatives. Moore points to Romney’s
Massachusetts healthcare plan that eventually included a $50
co-pay for abortions. And Moore says many conservative

for young girls in Texas. (The governor has since said he should
activists still hold Romney accountable for the legalization of
have proposed allowing families to opt into the vaccine for the
same-sex marriage in Massachusetts while he was governor.
sexually transmitted disease.)
If both Romney and Perry—whose poll numbers dipped
Still, Smith thinks those concerns won’t fell the candidate,
after a Florida straw poll defeat—faltered in South Carolina,
and that Perry likely has the best chance to win South
Moore thinks a door could open for other candidates like Cain
Carolina, barring a major gaffe, a dark horse candidate, or a sea
or Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. Either way, Moore says the
change endorsement for Romney by someone like influential
worsening climate for Democrats means that “Christians can
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. For Perry, a win here is critical, since a
vote for the best person. We can vote our conscience.”
loss in South Carolina
Randy Page—an
would likely be far more
evangelical, social condamaging than a loss for
servative, and president
Romney, says Smith: “I
of South Carolinians for
think if Perry has
Responsible
problems here, Perry has
Government—is still
problems.”
mulling the GOP slate.
Romney’s
Page—also a board
Mormonism seems
member of South
unlikely to create
Carolina Citizens for
substantial political
Life—met Romney
problems for him in this
during the last primary
cycle. The candidate’s
cycle, and says that he’s
religion drew more
comfortable with his
attention last time, but
pro-life position: “I do
evangelicals like Page,
believe people can
Smith, and others don’t
change.”
think it’s a major issue
Page also says he
with voters during this
thinks social conservacycle.
tives are interested in the
David Woodard, a
whole picture for GOP
political scientist at
candidates: “You can’t
Clemson University,
break the litmus test—
agrees with that assessyou have to be pro-life—
ment but says Romney’s
but we’re also concerned
attempt to woo South
about where you stand
Carolina voters still faces
on the budget and welresistance: “I just cannot
fare reform and taxes.”
see South Carolina
Oran Smith—an
Republican voters voting
evangelical and presifor a Mormon governor
dent of the conservative
from Massachusetts.”
Palmetto Family Council
That’s especially true,
(PFC)—says he thinks
says Woodard, when
Romney’s stated
they have the choice of a
positions on social issues
Texas governor with a
are relatively strong, but
Christian background: “I
that he still faces an
think Perry’s Christian
uphill battle to win the
associations, his football,
South Carolina contest.
his boots, his talkin’, his
Smith says Romney’s
ya’ll—I think all of it will
halting answers to a
connect eventually.”
question at a South
RAISING CAIN:
Chad Connelly—
Carolina debate regarding
doors may be
chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party
whether his vice president and cabinet appointees
opening for the
and a board member at PFC—says connecting with
would hold pro-life convictions left some voters
Cain campaign.
conservatives will hinge on an understanding that
cold: “I think there was enough of a hiccup there
fiscal issues and social issues work together: “I’m
that did not make him the first choice of some
one of those people who thinks you can’t separate the two.”
cultural and social conservatives.”
Policies that encourage hard work, marriage, and personal
Perry’s campaign has unquestionably hit bumps: He still
responsibility are key to encouraging conservative support, he
faces conservative challenges over his immigration policy that
says: “I think anyone who wins here is going to have to
allows in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants, and
understand that.” A
questions over his attempt to make the HPV vaccine mandatory
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fter 16 years of D.C.’s emerald haze,
former Sen. Sam Brownback is finding
there’s no place like home. This year
he returned to Kansas as governor
and has moved to remake the state’s
politics and provide a possible blueprint for the rest of the country.
Brownback had to deal with a
whirlwind of problems including a $550 million deficit
and a long-term trend of rural counties losing jobs and
population. Most states faced much larger deficits:
California, $28 billion; Illinois, $15 billion; New Jersey,
$10.5 billion. Those states tried jury-rigged combinations
of spending cuts, tax increases, and structural reforms,
but Brownback, aided by a strongly Republican legislature, has tried to develop a consistent conservative
program.
The new governor aims to grow the state’s economy
by keeping taxes low and cutting spending. In May he
signed into law a budget that he said would eliminate the
shortfall without raising taxes and would end the 2012
fiscal year with a surplus.
One of Brownback’s most innovative efforts is his Rural
Opportunity Zone program, which intends to reverse
population decline in 50 of the 105 Kansas counties. The
problem: Children of rural families go off to college and
don’t return, often leaving the state or settling in the
bigger cities of suburban Kansas City and Wichita where
industries are located. Brownback hopes to reverse the
trend by offering grants to repay student loans (up to
$15,000) and providing a five-year income tax exemption
for out-of-state taxpayers who move to rural areas.
Many across the aisle are upset with his plans.
Democratic Sen. Ed Trimmer said that getting people to
move back into rural counties is only part of the
problem: “If there are no jobs available in rural
areas now, what will these people do to earn a
Kansas income? Simply moving into an area
does not create a job.”
But Brownback spokeswoman
Sherriene Jones-Sontag says the plan
will provide not only an incentive for
people to move back to rural areas, but
also for businesses to move in. She said
she has received queries from companies
interested in moving to these areas
because it would improve the quality of
life for their employees.
Another Trimmer objection: If Brownback
is successful in eliminating the income tax for all
Kansans as he promises, the incentives to move to rural
areas will be short-lived. Republican Rep. Lance Kinzer
also voted against Brownback’s plan because he said a
Senate amendment added too many counties to the list,
and the definition of rural counties was unclear: “We
might as well make the whole state a Rural Opportunity
Zone.”
But the program passed the legislature and went into
effect in July. Neighboring Nebraska and other states may
enact similar plans if the Kansas program is effective.

Brownback’s budget also aggressively cuts spending
to close the deficit. In one of the most controversial cuts,
Kansas became the first and only state to defund the arts
following Brownback’s line-item veto. He proposed
instead to give a subsidy of $200,000 to the private nonprofit Kansas Art Foundation (Kaf), which he wants to
replace the state-sponsored arts commission. He also
donated $30,000 of his leftover inauguration funds to
the organization.
Linda Browning Weis, the chairwoman of the Kansas
Arts Commission and the president of Kaf, is confident
she and other arts advocates can raise enough private
dollars for the programs: “Because government funding
goes away, is art going to die? No. Art will live on.”
By ending funding for the arts, Kansas also forfeited a
matching grant of nearly $1.3 million in federal aid.
Americans for the Arts, a Washington arts lobby, said
nonprofit arts and culture organizations in Kansas
support more than 4,500 full-time jobs and deliver
$15.6 million in local and state government revenue.
Brownback’s other major push is to tighten abortion
regulations. When he came into office, the governor
promised to create a “culture of life” that would protect
humans in all stages of life. Kansans for Life legislative
director Kathy Ostrowski says he’s made substantial
improvements.
The governor signed abortion laws that restrict private
insurance coverage of abortions, except when a woman’s
life is at risk. Kansas also banned abortion after 22
weeks’ gestation, required annual inspections of abortion
centers, and diverted about $330,000 in federal family
planning funds from Planned Parenthood to public
hospitals and health departments. Planned Parenthood
and the American Civil Liberties Union are fighting the
laws in court.
Brownback’s budget also includes income tax deductions for new business equipment and software. It cut
spending on education and government agencies, along
with government worker pensions. Brownback plans to
work more on those issues plus Medicaid and the state’s
judicial system. Kansas is the only state where a commission headed by the bar association selects justices for
the governor to nominate. The current Kansas Supreme
Court votes liberal and is likely to rule against
Brownback’s policies.
Although these issues have not yet been resolved,
Rep. Kinzer is excited about the new atmosphere in the
government: “More than anything it’s a willingness to
identify the issues and recognize the need for reform.”
One of the new laws prohibits employee payroll deductions for union dues and PaCs.
Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once
said, “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal
system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens
choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and
economic experiments without risk to the rest of the
country.” If Brownback’s experiments work in Kansas,
other states will follow him down the yellow brick
road—yet this road leads not to the Emerald City but
away from its fantasies. A
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the speech, students took turns standing
and shouting out scripted slogans that
included, “You are a war criminal” and
“Propagating murder is not an expression of free speech.” After a warning by
campus officials,  students were
arrested one by one before the entire
group walked out chanting in unison.
The ambassador’s speech was cut short
by  minutes, disappointing a crowd of
 people. The group became known as
the “Irvine ,” although charges were
dropped against one of the students
pending  hours of community service.
During the trial, which began on
Sept. , attorneys for the students argued
the importance of campus activism and
claimed the defendants did not conspire
to break the law, likening the disruptions
to the activism of Martin Luther King Jr.
and other social activists.
Moutaz Herzallah, whose son is one
of the defendants, moved to the United
States from Bahrain several decades ago.
BIG MESS ON CAMPUS: Protesters march
outside the Orange County District Attorney’s
office (left);  of the   and UC Riverside
Muslim students on trial (right).

ZUMA PRESS/NEWSCOM

     of
deliberation, an Orange
County jury announced its
verdict in a case that sparked
national debate over free speech rights:
On Sept. , all  Muslim students were
found guilty of criminal charges for disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador
Michael Oren at the University of
California in Irvine () last year.
The defendants continue to proclaim
their innocence and accuse the Orange
County District Attorney’s Office of
racism and religious bias. A gag order
prevented the D.A.’s office from answering these allegations during the trial, but
on Sept. , District Attorney Tony
Rackauckas released emails, documents,
and videos that were used in the trial—
an effort to prove to the public that
criminal charges were justified.
“The defendants have shown no
remorse. They continue to claim they
were wrongfully convicted,” District
Attorney Chief of Staff Susan Kang
Schroeder told me. “And many newspapers, without knowing all the facts,

have joined in their ridiculous sentiment
even though they actually made motions
in court saying this is a biased prosecution
and they lost. They lost all those motions.”
Schroeder described an astonished
crowd when the verdict was read. Several
people gasped while more than two dozen
of the approximately  spectators
stormed out of the room. She said one of
the supporters pointed at a uniformed
deputy sheriff guarding the court and
shouted, “You are a tool of Israel.” Other
supporters tried to intimidate the jurors by
illegally taking video and pictures of them
leaving the courthouse. Investigators
were unable to catch those supporters.
The students—eight from UC-Irvine
and three from UC-Riverside—were
charged with one misdemeanor count of
conspiring to disrupt the ambassador’s
Feb. , , speech and a second count
for the disruption.
The university’s Muslim Student
Union () originally denied any
involvement in the disruptions, but an
investigation uncovered email proof of a
meticulously planned scheme (see “‘We
will fight you,’” Nov. , ). During

“I decided to immigrate with my family
to this country so we could have peace,
freedom of speech, dignity and honor,”
Herzallah said. “Apparently the district
attorney of Orange County threw the
American Constitution in the trash.”
Schroeder disagrees, saying others
protested the ambassador’s speech but
did so legally and were not prosecuted. “When you look at the emails,
they’re very clear not only that they
decided who gets to speak and who
doesn’t get to speak, they also decided
that Ambassador Oren should not get
to speak because he’s an Israeli,”
Schroeder explained. “That’s pretty
anti-Semitic. And not only were they
going to do this at , they were
going to do it all over the country.”
The students were sentenced to
three years of informal probation and
 hours of community service to be
completed by Jan. . Attorneys for the
students plan to appeal, and Schroeder
said the defendants’ supporters are
creating an anti–district attorney
website and Facebook page. “If you dare
to disagree with them then you’re antiMuslim when in fact it has nothing to
do with their religion. It has to do with
the fact that they committed a crime.” A

SIDEWALKS VS.
SHOUT DOWNS

On the day the “Irvine ” verdict was
announced, the th annual Arab American
Festival was just beginning in Garden Grove,
Calif., five miles from the Orange County
Courthouse in Santa Ana. On a public street
corner near the entrance to the festival, dozens
of protesters were blowing horns and hollering at a group from Concerned Citizens for
the First Amendment who were holding a sign the protesters found offensive.
“Muhammad is a child molester,” the sign proclaimed, alluding to Muhammad’s marriage
to -year-old Aisha (some traditions claim she was ). Many were angered and some
suggested the group should not be allowed at the festival. One protester told me over the
noise of the crowd, “What do you mean a public sidewalk? You cannot say Muhammad is
like this. Muhammad is like that. You can say Jesus is the Son of God—that is your opinion.
But you cannot say a bad thing about another prophet! That’s the bottom line.”
Across the street, Pastor George Saieg from Arabic Christian Perspectives and his
team were handing out drinks and Christian pamphlets to festival-goers. He disagrees
with Concerned Citizen’s tactics but affirms their right to be there: “Some Muslims try to
compare this to the situation with Irvine, saying, ‘Why are police just watching here and
allowing this guy to hold a sign on a public sidewalk saying Muhammad is a child molester
while they stopped us in Irvine to say our opinion inside when the ambassador of Israel
was there?’ My response to them is this is a public sidewalk. But [at ] it was a lawful
assembly,” Saieg said. “You cannot just come in and shout down a private event.”
Saieg is well versed in First Amendment rights. He recently won an appellate court
decision affirming his right to hand out Christian literature at a similar event in Dearborn,
Mich., last year. The city had banned Saieg and other Christian groups from public sidewalks near the festival, arresting those who violated the ban (see “Smelting pot,” July ,
). Saieg sued Dearborn and lost in Federal Court, but the th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled in May that his First Amendment rights were violated.
Saieg, who was born and raised in Sudan and now calls California home, says this is a
victory for religious freedom: “If they stop us from preaching the gospel, Muslims also
will be stopped from preaching their message and I think they should recommend that
we continue our freedom of speech in this way.” —J.N.

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Road to r

both job seekers and job creators are facing difficult times,
but many do not see that as a reason to lose hope
by JOEL HANNAHS in Des Moines, Iowa

G

 R  layoffs were possible,
but the -year Wells Fargo employee
didn’t expect to be in the first wave. He
looked around the meeting room with
some  others, and before anyone said a word,
knew that even his position as vice president of
continuous improvement was gone.
Even as he thought to himself, “I didn’t see
this coming,” he had a more important realization: God did. “So right away I had that
reminder that the Lord is in control,” he said.
A stubbornly sluggish economy is producing
a large number of Americans in Rawls’ position.
And the job creators who normally bring an
economy out of recession, small businesses, are
finding it frustratingly difficult to do so now,
leaving many of the unemployed with few
options. Iowa, despite a relatively low unemployment rate of . percent, is a microcosm of
the nation in this regard.
For Rawls, losing his job proved to be a chance
to help others. Through a consulting opportunity, then a recurring two-month contract with
Aviva Insurance, he has comparable pay and
helps companies improve methods and measure performance. Along the way, he began to
have opportunities to speak to others who were
facing tough times, first former co-workers,
then their friends.
Over two years, he’s spoken with  to 
people about facing joblessness. Sometimes it’s
just a conversation, sometimes more. He shares
practical knowledge of job-seeking tools, but
he is also able to talk about the role of faith.
“People are good at looking back on a trial and
seeing God’s hand,” he said. “We need to learn
to look ahead and see it.”
John Ottley recommends job-seekers hold
fast to Psalm :. Until recently a Des Moines

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area pastor, Ottley was one of the people who
picked up the phone and called Rawls and other
friends for practical and biblical advice. Tom
Evans, a former family physician, joined Ottley
for long bike rides to hash out the practical realities of Ottley’s strengths and opportunities for a
“late life transition” at age . Another sat down
at Panera with his Bible open to share some
counsel: “And I was the pastor!” jokes Ottley.
After several months of looking into positions
he thought might make sense, an unexpected
door opened wide. Within weeks of hearing
about a position at Grace Evangelical Church in
Germantown, Tenn., he was serving again. “I
certainly can appreciate the test of faith it is,”
he said. “Faith is easy to talk about, harder to
practice.”

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    traditionally lies with the small businesses that
are the nation’s top job creators. According to
the Small Business Administration, small
businesses created  percent of new jobs over
the past  years. But with consumer confidence low and budgets tight, hiring hasn’t
bounced back.
In , Gene and Susan Lutz opened the
Lutz Pharmacy in Altoona, Iowa. “I was able to
start on a shoestring then,” he said. “That’s just
about impossible today. You’ve got to be a
certain size to make it even practical.”
Pharmacists must sell twice the volume that
would have supported his business in the early
days, as audits and other government-caused
costs are increasing. For example, required
waste, fraud, and abuse training is not reimbursed. “Regulations are stifling,” said Lutz, past
president of the American Pharmacy Association.
“I don’t think it’s going to get better.”

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Moines, has been in the home-remodeling field for more than
 years, starting out by working his way through college. One
change in the industry is the focus on ���green” or environmental
methods. That increases costs, such as certification to handle
lead-based paint properly. The layers of government involvement go all the way to the local level, with each community
determining sprinkler requirements. Even so, he’s optimistic:
“The last three years haven’t been good for housing, whether
building or remodeling,” he said. “But your house is still a
good place to put your money.”
Bryan Regier, one of the pastors at
STILL LOOKING: JobFaith Bible Church in Cedar Rapids,
seekers check job
said that the church had nine or 
postings at St. Mark
families out of work in , when the
Presbyterian Church
city battled a flood, and the jobless are
in Ballwin, Mo.

[employees] before the recession hit. Everybody quit buying.
We had to retrench and reorganize, but we’re surviving,” he said.
“We’ll be here, but it’s been a tough three years.”
He started a heavy truck alignment business in . He and an
engineer then teamed up to manufacture the equipment to align
trucks, and he pivoted to selling the product in . The general
lack of confidence in the economy is now costing him sales. Most
of his buyers plan to finance their purchases, yet many have
trouble getting the necessary financing. For about  months, he
did not have any financed sales because purchasers could not get
loans. A secondary complication is not new: Each state has different tax laws, increasing paperwork for each out-of-state sale.
Rollie Clarkson, owner of Remodeling Contractors in Des

always a part of their ministry. “People found employment
again, but they’re underemployed,” he said.
The church has a benevolence fund and an ad hoc committee process in place for when members end up in financial
turmoil. They start by working up a new, lean budget. “We
don’t just bail them out,” he said. “We get the numbers down,
and we address hard issues.”
Jobs are a constant topic of presidential hopefuls in Iowa,
and Gov. Terry Branstad is touring the state talking jobs in
town halls. With the federal government already borrowing 
cents on the dollar, Branstad expects to continue looking for
solutions at the state level. “This is a very slow recovery,” he
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now in view of that point in their lives when they will expect
to find a buyer and retire.
Still closed on Sundays, the store’s front doubles as Healing
Touch Book and Bible. The little Christian bookstore is partly
just something they wanted to do, partly another way to
differentiate from the national chains. “One of the benefits of
being an independent business is that you can make decisions
quickly and change gears,” Lutz said.
Across town, the downturn had a bigger hit on Mike Beckett’s
small business, manufacturing equipment for heavy-truck
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LIFESTYLE:
A Mennonite
cookbook may show
a way out of the
class struggle
over food
BY SUSAN OLASKY

T-   Mennonite
publisher Herald Press published the
More-With-Less Cookbook, which has
now sold more than , copies.
This year Herald Press released the third
edition with updated statistics and nutritional information. Doris Jantzen Longacre’s
cookbook brought together nutritious recipes
from Mennonites living in North America
and around the world. Its recipes stress
cooking from scratch with whole grains,
beans, fruits, and vegetables. Many of the

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recipes use less meat than Americans are
accustomed to eating.
A recent flare-up in the food wars shows
the continued need for the cookbook. In an
August TV Guide interview, celebrity chef
Anthony Bourdain slammed Food Channel
personality Paula Deen: “The worst, most
dangerous person to America is clearly Paula
Deen … she’s proud of the fact that her food is
[expletive] bad for you. … I would think twice
before telling an already obese nation that it’s
 to eat food that is killing us.” Deen
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its artery-clogging, self-destructive
glory.” Bruni argued that Americans are
too fat but “getting Deen to unplug the
waffle iron” would not get at the “core
of the problem any more than posting
fast-food calorie counts or taxing soft
drinks do.” He called for more “healthy
food that’s affordable and convenient.”
That brings us back to More-WithLess. In addition to its  recipes, the
cookbook conveys a Mennonite
sensibility about eating simply. The
book is out of step with both Bourdain
and Dean. It shows that cooking on a
budget doesn’t have to be deep fried.

S TICKER SHOCK

Bedbug bite

Bedbugs are on the rise, and so are
illnesses tied to the pesticides used
to fight them. Increased international travel and pesticide-resistant
bedbugs have combined to bring the bloodsucking critters even into the fanciest
Manhattan hotels. Anxious Americans are fighting back—and
sometimes getting sick in the process.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports
 people in seven states becoming ill after using pesticides
to control bedbugs. Most illnesses were not serious—but one
woman died. About  percent of the cases involved pyre-



Maybe your mother told you not to
play with your food. If so, she was
missing a chance to foster creativity, and Jill White Mills has something to teach you. Her website,
Kitchen Fun with My Three Sons
(kitchenfunwithmysons.blogspot.
com), dishes up one clever plateful
after another: a Charlie Brown
devised from pancakes and scrambled eggs, flower pot on a stick
S’more treats, or an Angry Bird
peanut butter sandwich.
When your children are not making
fun food, they can enjoy drawing a
stickman on the computer and
then watching it move. Add a key
and the stickman opens a box. Add
a sword and the stickman chases
away a dragon. All this fun is available on the easy-to-use website,
Draw a Stickman (drawastickman.
com). It features rudimentary
story, drawing, and animation, but
it’s still intriguing. —S.O.

throids and pyrethins, common insecticides
available in over-the-counter pest control
products and head lice shampoos.
The government report acknowledges that
pesticide-related illnesses are infrequent,
but that could change as pesticide-resistant
bedbugs proliferate. People, frustrated that
drugstore pesticides don’t seem to work, may
use more and more. The one person who died, a North
Carolina woman with a history of diabetes along
with heart and kidney disease, used insecticides all over the bedroom, 
cans of foggers, and bedbug killer
on arms, chest, and hair. —S.O.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scaring young
couples with its estimate that the average cost of raising
children from birth to age  is now ,—that’s  percent greater than a
decade ago. The  provides a calculator (.../default.aspx) so that
parents can see the amounts for different-sized families living in different regions.
Breaking down the numbers suggests a different story. Nearly half the total
comes from housing and daycare/education expenses. The cost calculation assumes
two parents working outside the home and assumes every child costs the same. But
families with many children know that the incremental cost of subsequent children
is low—if one parent is at home, at least during their preschool years.
The  calculates  percent of the total for food and
transportation and the remaining  percent for clothing,
healthcare, and miscellaneous items. The numbers are scary
because they forget the old adage: Children are cheaper by the
dozen. Each child does not necessarily need a separate room.
Meals are stretchable. On the other hand, that , does
not include any money for private or Christian schools, so for
some families the cost can be worrisome, especially when
they have to pay twice for schooling: once in taxes, once in
tuition. —S.O.

responded in the New York Post: “You
know, not everybody can afford to pay
 for prime rib or  for a bottle of
wine. My friends and I cook for regular
families who worry about feeding their
kids and paying the bills.”
New York Times food critic Frank
Bruni stepped into the fray, noting that
the exchange “exposes class tensions in
the food world that sadly mirror those
in society at large. You can almost
imagine Bourdain and Deen as political
candidates, a blue-state paternalist
squaring off against a red-state populist
over correct living versus liberty in all

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Patent
attacks

The makers of
smartphones and
tablet computers
are engulfed in a
global legal battle

I  C,
America’s Founders promoted a
culture of innovation by granting
inventors, for a limited time,
“the exclusive right” to their discoveries.
Patents today last  to  years, enough
time for companies to market unique
products and recoup the costs of
research and development.
The number of patent lawsuits in
the United States has risen around 
percent in the past decade. In the
fiercely competitive world of smartphones and tablet computers, suits
have reached warlike proportions. A
single smartphone might involve tens
of thousands of patent claims, and the
makers of these gadgets and their
software—including Google, Apple,
Samsung, HTC, Microsoft, and others—
are busy suing and countersuing one
another in multiple countries. The
losers of patent cases may have to pay
up or halt sales of a product altogether.
Apple succeeded in blocking sales of
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab . tablet in
Germany in August because it looked
too much like an iPad. (Apple is
seeking to block Samsung devices in
the United States as well.) VIA

Technologies, a chipset maker, has
filed suit to ban iPad and iPhone sales
in the United States.
Some companies seem to be using
patent suits not just to defend their
products but to go on the offense
against competitors, aiming to
handicap rivals in a race to sell the
hottest gadgets. Some disputes involve
seemingly trivial infringements: Apple
recently nailed HTC over a system that
automatically recognizes phone
numbers in emails. That and a data
transmission patent infringement
could translate into a ban on all HTC
Android phone sales in the United
States, depending on the outcome of a
trade agency review.
“The whole idea in the smartphone
business now is to puff yourself up in a
way that wards off lawsuits,” Dennis
Crouch, a patent law professor from the

University of Missouri, told a Fortune
reporter. Technology companies have
taken to buying up their competitors
just to get the patents they own: In
July a group of companies bought over
, patents and applications from
the bankrupt Nortel for . billion,
the biggest patent auction in history.
Google, claiming its competitors were
cooperating to “strangle” its Android
mobile software, responded in August
by purchasing Motorola Mobility for
. billion, gaining , patents.
The new patent law signed by
President Obama in September could
reduce the number of infringement
disputes, but some think it will harm
small-scale inventors. Companies could
avoid the risk of suing one another
into oblivion by simple cooperation, as
Crouch suggests: They could license
their technology to one another.

Tracking trick

Tracking technology is testing interpretations of
the Fourth Amendment’s protection against
“unreasonable searches.” The Wall Street Journal reported the  and other federal and local
authorities are using secretive devices known generically as “stingrays” to track suspects. The
devices mimic a cell phone tower, tricking a phone or mobile broadband card to connect and send
information about its location. Legal experts say it’s unclear whether locating a suspect in his
home with such technology should require a search warrant. –D.J.D.

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organ donations in the United States take
place after brain death, but DCD is regaining
its popularity, accounting for 6 percent or
more of all donations today. Because a
stopped heart can resume beating spontaneously in very rare cases, doctors normally
wait two to five minutes before declaring
cardiac death and allowing organs to be
removed from the body. The unos transplant
guidelines since 2007 have referenced that
two-minute wait time.
Organ sharing network seeks to speed
Now, unos says the two-minute wait
was never mandatory and isn’t its business
up the clock on declarations of death
to impose: “What we’ve come to realize is
By daniel jaMes devine
the hospital and the care team in charge of
that patient is really the most qualified to
make the determination of death,” said
Charles Alexander, the former president of unos. That has
A group responsible for arranging organ transplants
critics worried: How soon might some doctors choose to
is revising its donation guidelines, and has touched a
declare death? Will they begin viewing patients as donors
nerve in the process. The United Network for Organ
before they’ve taken their final breath?
Sharing (unos), which has a contract with the U.S.
Another change unos plans to make is to redefine DCD as
government to match donated organs to transplant candidates,
“donation after circulatory death,” implying that death should
is changing its policy regarding “donation after cardiac
be determined not by heart inactivity but by a lack of adequate
death,” or DCD.
blood circulation. A Georgetown University bioethicist said
Cardiac death, popularly characterized by a flat line on a
the name change was a “potentially intentionally deceptive”
video monitor, was once the standard prerequisite for organ
way of avoiding debate about the definition of death.
donation, but was replaced by brain death in the 1970s. Most

Mostly dead

DisowneD
Pro-life activists celebrated the
passage of an embryo patent ban
on sept. 16, part of the america
invents act, a law reforming the
U.s. patent system. The act made
permanent a ban that formerly had
to be renewed year-by-year,
preventing biotechnology
companies from trying to claim
rights on an embryo that, for
instance, is cloned or has particular
genetic traits. —D.J.D.

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Particle physicists have carried out an experiment that shouldn’t be possible. Albert
Einstein’s special theory of relativity dictates
nothing can travel faster than the speed of
light—but if measurements made by
researchers at the OPERA (Oscillation Project
with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) project in
Italy are accurate, neutrinos have bested light
speed by 60 nanoseconds. The researchers
made their discovery by shooting neutrinos—
particles with almost no mass that can pass
through matter easily—underground 454
miles through rock from the CERN (European
Organization for Nuclear Research) particle
accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, to a
detector near L’Aquila, Italy, and timing the
journey with GPS and two ultra-accurate
cesium clocks.
The notion that a central law of physics could be broken isn’t sitting well with the
scientific public, and most think some measurement error is to blame. The OPERA scientists tend to agree, but after six months of checking and rechecking their data, they’re
asking researchers at other particle labs to replicate the experiment and help them solve
the puzzle. “The potential impact on science is too large to draw immediate conclusions or
attempt physics interpretations,” said OPERA spokesman Antonio Ereditato. —D.J.D.

Restoration Anglican Church, part of the
theologically orthodox Anglican Church in North America, is
a new congregation that meets in a decades-old church
building in Arlington, Va. Restoration bought the building
from Trinity Baptist Church, which disbanded last year.
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Facing the
music

>>

Decision to pull HANK WILLIAMS JR.’s
MNF opener shows hyper-politicalcorrectness is still with us
BY MARK BERGIN

Diamond gems



In the  World Series,
Pittsburgh second baseman and defensive specialist Bill
Mazeroski delivered a bottom-of-theninth-inning home run to win Game 
and the title. To this day, Mazeroski
maintains that the feeling of calm he
felt as the fateful pitch was delivered
“is something I’ve never been able
to explain.”

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

Such excitement offers a
reminder of the game’s
human element. For all the
wizardry of Billy Beane’s
statistical analysis, now
immortalized in the Brad Pitt
film Moneyball, baseball
remains a fantastically

In the  World
Series, Boston first
baseman Bill Buckner
let a slow-dribbling
ball trickle
through his legs,
allowing the Mets to
score the gamewinning run and
avoid elimination.
New York would win
Game  and the
series two days
later. The baseball
from that infamous
play went up for sale
on eBay this month with
a price tag of  million.

unpredictable enterprise,
often turning on the intangible
grit of a player’s guts. Playoff
history proves as much. Here
are three surprising, gripping,
and deeply human moments
from the game’s postseason
archives.



In the  , Yankees
shortstop Derek Jeter raced
across the infield to track down an errant
throw and flip the ball backhand to catcher
Jorge Posada,
(right) who
promptly tagged
out Oakland runner Jeremy Giambi
(center) trying to
score from first
base. The play preserved a New York
lead in Game  and provided the pivot for the
Yankees to surge back from a - deficit to
win the series in five games. Had Giambi only
slid, Oakland might well have eliminated the
Yankees that very day.

Major League Baseball’s
pennant races provided
historic drama this year—the
September collapses of
Boston and Atlanta; the -

seasonending surge
from St. Louis;
the stunning come-frombehind victory of Tampa Bay
over New York on the final
day of the season to nab a
playoff spot.

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F    , Hank Williams Jr. has provided
the opening soundtrack for Monday Night Football. The country
music singer earned four Emmy awards in the early s for his
lyrical odes to the gridiron. And when the staple of American
sports culture made the transition from  to  in , Williams
traveled with it.
But such staying power was little match for an ill-conceived political
quip earlier this month. As a guest on the Fox News program Fox and
Friends, Williams suggested that the recent golf outing of President
Barack Obama with House Speaker John Boehner was akin to “Hitler
playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu.”
The remark drew scorn from the Anti-Defamation League, which
contends that such comparisons to Hitler cheapen the German dictator’s
singularly heinous crimes against European Jews. But before Williams
could muster a public apology,  pulled his musical opener from its
broadcast, citing extreme disappointment with his comments. Who
knew that the nation’s premier sports network is averse to using music
from entertainers who make mildly stupid political statements? Too bad.
That’s just about all of them.
Such a policy smacks of last decade, when hyper-political-correctness
cost numerous radio and television personalities their jobs. But hasn’t
that era of tiptoes and eggshells begun to fade, and maybe especially in
sports? Isn’t the affably controversial Hulk Hogan’s new reality show on
midget wrestling evidence enough of that?

Notebook > Money

No Jobs, No Sale

Efforts to sell the president’s job plan don’t seem to
be helping his popularity BY WARREN COLE SMITH

>>

O M, S. , President Barack Obama made a Rose Garden
speech to unveil his  trillion plan to shrink the deficit and create
jobs, with about half of the savings coming from spending cuts. Most
of the rest will come from taxes. Despite an aggressive sales tour by
the president—mostly to states that will be battlegrounds in the 
election—he’s finding few buyers.
The reasons for the lack of support are many. Conservative columnist
David Brooks said the president’s plan isn’t big enough: “This plan will not
solve our problem.” For Tea Party conservatives, tax increases are simply
non-starters. Moderates and liberals hate the president’s proposed cuts.
Still, Obama soldiers on. In addition to his speaking tour, the Democratic
National Committee launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to promote
the plan. The title of the campaign, “ months,” denotes the number of
months until the  election. It’s a title that is either direct, ironic, or
cynical, depending on your point of view.
The ’s point of view is to bet heavily on the campaign and the plan,
perhaps guessing it’s their last shot to move the economy and change
perceptions of Obama’s performance before vague uneasiness becomes
stubborn resistance. So the ads are running in the swing states of Florida,
Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia, as well as in Washington,
D.C. The  hasn’t released dollar figures, but media experts estimate the
buy to be in the tens of millions of dollars.
They don’t seem to be moving the needle much. A Rasmussen poll
conducted a week after the ads started running put the president’s approval
rating at  percent, the lowest of his presidency.

F ED OUT

Those who think the
Federal Reserve does
too much meddling may be able to
take consolation in its latest move. On
Sept. , the Fed announced a
portfolio rebalancing designed to
drive down interest rates on longterm government debt. The move
was largely expected, but the stock
markets hated it, both here and
abroad, and moved sharply downward.
Analysts say the news troubled
investors for two reasons: First, the
Fed’s statement offered a bleak
assessment of the future of the U.S.
economy. Second, the Fed purchased
bonds that mature after  years.
That is as far out as you can go. It
means that the Fed is out when it
comes to affecting interest rates in
the future. For some analysts who
think that market forces should be
allowed to work more directly, that’s
actually good news. —W.C.S.

Better banks

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CREDIT

When is bad news good news? When it’s
not as bad as it could have been.
In late September, regulators closed
banks in Virginia and California, lifting to
 the number of U.S. bank failures this
year. If that sounds like bad news,
consider this: The number of closures has
dropped significantly this year as banks
have worked their way through the bad
debt accumulated in the recession.
By this time last year, regulators had
shuttered  banks. In all of ,
regulators seized  banks, the most in
any year since the savings-and-loan crisis
two decades ago. Those failures cost the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
which insures bank deposits, around 
billion. The  has said  likely was the
high-water mark for bank failures from the
Great Recession.
Florida, Georgia, and Illinois also have
seen large numbers of bank failures. —W.C.S.
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Pastors
and
politics
A growing number
of congregations are
riding a wave of
political activism
By tim dalrymPle

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Ethics
and Religious
Liberty Commission, describes the
nascent national movement of pastors
engaging the political sphere as a
reawakening of the Religious Right in a
more localized, grassroots form—“a
congregational version of the tea party.”
Pastors who once avoided his calls are
now calling him and asking to get
involved.
Whether this constitutes a healthy
development in the life of the American
church, or a distraction from its eternal
purpose, is a matter of dispute even
amongst Christian conservatives.
Controversial new books on the essential mission of the church and starkly
different responses among evangelicals
to religious-political events like Glenn
Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally and Rick
Perry’s “Response” suggest that pastors
and religious leaders are finding it difficult to separate the right and wrong
ways of bringing faith and politics
together.
Seven out of 10 pastors, according to
a 2010 LifeWay Research study, draw
the line at endorsing candidates from

the pulpit.
It’s one thing
to educate and
mobilize a congregation around biblical
principles of life, family,
and fiscal stewardship, but
quite another to make the
church an instrument of political
operators. Yet an even larger number, eight out of 10 pastors, according to
a new LifeWay study, believe the taxexempt status of churches should not be
imperiled by their political activities.
Pastors want the freedom to choose
whether to engage the political sphere
without the threat of government
intervention.
What is clear is that pastors, as
Johnson says, “see this as more than just
another presidential election.” What is
not yet clear is how congregations and
their broader communities will respond.
When churches enter the political fray,
do they compromise their witness and
make the proper party affiliation a prerequisite for entering the kingdom? On
the other hand, in the midst of social
disintegration and the erosion of JudeoChristian values, can churches and their
pastors afford to stand apart from the
fray, or do their moral and theological
commitments compel action? The road
to November 2012 is long, not only for
the candidates and their supporters but
for pastors and thoughtful believers who
would understand, model, and teach the
right relationship between faith and
politics, church and state. A

Lisa Haney/sis

Call it the Holy
Water Party. The federal government’s
reckless mismanagement
of the economy, and the continued
deterioration of our collective moral
culture, has inspired a new wave of
conservative Christian political activism.
According to pastor Jamie Johnson of
Story City, Iowa, Iowan pastors were
roused from their apolitical slumbers by
hate-speech legislation in 2009 that
might have constrained what pastors
could say from the pulpit and a state
Supreme Court decision in the same
year opening the door to same-sex
marriage. Three Iowa Supreme Court
justices who ruled with the majority
were voted off the bench, and now
pastors are “much more enthused than
they were four years ago” to shape the
election’s outcome.
Since some congregants prefer their
pulpits without politics, says Kerry Jech
of Marshalltown, Iowa, pastors like
himself “take the fire” for their political
activities. Yet he’s confident he’s making
the right decision, and wishes more
would join the cause. Many pastors
believe that the issues at stake in the
2012 election are so important that
failing to engage the political sphere is
failing to defend the flock.
The phenomenon is not limited to
highly politicized states like Iowa. In a
Los Angeles Times report on pastors
“increasingly heeding a call to speak
out on politics,” Richard Land, president
of the Southern Baptist Convention’s

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“Remembering /”

(Sept. ) Many thanks for your special tribute to
the / victims and their families. It was sad to
read about those who could not recover physical
remains of their loved ones. But it is a comfort to
know that in our final homecoming the sea will give
up her dead and out of the rubble of this tragic event the dead in Christ will
receive new and glorified bodies.  , Pella, Iowa

“A long unremitting campaign”

“Where is our treasure?”

(Sept. ) You are right. The United States did
not receive its wake-up call about radical
Islam until /. These evil-doers began their
work much before then. The first World
Trade Center bombing in  and the two
U.S. Embassy bombings in  had their
origins with Islamic radicals in southeast
Asia. It isn’t just a war against the Middle East
and the United States. It truly encompassed
much of the world and still is continuing.
 

Grand Prairie, Texas

“September morn”

(Sept. ) Three cheers for Marvin Olasky’s
column on Social Security. The American
dream of retirement is the exact opposite
of God’s plan for our lives. Idling away one’s
time with golf, cruises, and cocktail parties
does not square with a God who wants us
to stay in the race, regardless of age or
occupation.
 

Huntington, W.Va.

Medical advances can enable us to live longer lives, but everyone still wants to retire
at . My husband and I are in our s and
fully expect to work until at least . But in
today’s economy many

(Sept. ) It is very difficult, looking at the
wreckage of the towers and reading about
people jumping to their deaths, to remember that the Lord’s Prayer says “forgive
us our trespasses as we forgive those
who trespass against us.” I can’t seem
around the world
to be able to forgive those responsible,
and reading Paul Glader’s account of
Melanie Kirkpatrick’s experience causes
a feeling of rage to well up in me, even 
years later. God help us not to hate.

employers get rid of older employees to
replace them with younger, less expensive
workers. This leaves older Americans
trying to compete for lower-paying jobs
just to stay employed.
 
Phoenix, Ariz.

I have encountered many Christians who
delay retirement because they can’t yet
afford the comforts they desire in their
golden years, or perhaps they distrust
God’s providence. On the other hand, many
Christian men and women step into retirement with their sleeves rolled up and the
armor of God in place for the next phase of
God’s call—volunteering, short-term

WUASA, CENTRAL SULAWESI, INDONESIA / submitted by Christy Hanna

 . 
Holly Hill, S.C.

All the remembrances and photos of a very
dark time were particularly poignant as we
try to understand the meaning of / in light
of God’s redeeming grace. When asked
about the Galileans sacrificed by Pilate,
Jesus’ response was a call to repentance. I
wish you had mentioned that this is what the
living are to do after monumental tragedies.
 
Springfield, Va.

I do not dispute that Social Security is
untenable in its current form, but for my
Social Security check the government gets
a volunteer in a school reading program, a
board member for the senior center in a
poor rural area, and a deacon in the church
working in the government-sponsored food
closet. There is a talented workforce among
seniors. Instead of beating seniors with
rhetoric about entitlements, let’s talk about
the opportunities that freedom from the
daily grind gives people to be productive in
new ways.
 

Groveland, Calif.

“The new greatest generation”
(Sept. ) I don’t think there will ever be a
generation like the one that lived through

World War II. I’m in the Air Force, and some
give us that title because when / happened so many people signed up for the
military. But our grandparents received that
title because the entire country came
together and sacrificed in many ways to
support those fighting overseas. They
knew what it meant to go without, but if
you take luxuries away from people today
or ask them to sacrifice for the nation,
watch out. It always turns into something
political.
 . 
Altus, Okla.

who sacrificed life and limb for a cause
greater than themselves.
 

Foothill Ranch, Calif.

“Islam vs. liberty”
(Sept. ) This is the most lucid clarification
I’ve read of the differences between
Christianity and Islam regarding salvation
and works, and it explains why freedom is
troubling to Muslims. The choice is life
eternal with God by works or by grace. I am
in the grace camp.
 

Boca Raton, Fla.

Our son Justin was one of that young,
idealistic “generation of redeemers” who
also saw something other than the horror
in the smoking towers—and got up from his
college classroom on Sept. , , and
enlisted in the U.S. Army the next day. On
Dec. , , Justin lost his life in Iraq. God
has given us peace and comfort with
respect to his passing. His story is one of
thousands of brave young men and women

Like many other critics of Islam, Marvin
Olasky does not account for the fact that
millions of Muslims live peacefully in the
United States today. I understand the
concern about “radical Islam,” but too many
allow the terrorists to define their view of a
religion with over . billion adherents, all
but a few of whom are innocent of
bloodshed.
 

Fairfax, Va.

“Closing in September”
(Sept. ) Joel Belz asked for an example of
something that works better now than
when we were younger. Would anyone
want to go back to the decades of Hitler, or
“separate but unequal,” or runaway inflation?
In my own lifetime I have seen many
changes for the better. Polio is a rarity.
Average life span is extended. Lakes and
rivers are less polluted. Grocery stores
carry far more choices. I can look at the
glass as half-full or half-empty, or I can
choose not to focus on the empty glass of
the world and instead look to the full glass
that is Jesus.
 
Silverdale, Wash.

“Thousands left behind”
(Aug. ) I read your article on No Child Left
Behind with great interest. The same process
is projected into adulthood. My required
class for a real estate license taught me
nothing about real estate activities, like
negotiating, but only how to pass the exam.
In this respect European systems, which
often offer vocational training, have us
beaten hands down. Why are programs of
this nature not nationally available here? At

“Not just kids’ stuff”
(Aug. ) May Joel Belz have the
strength and sense of humor to get
through his adventure. I speak as one
who, two years ago, took my mother
into our home to care for her. She has
Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis.
Caring for mom has become a family
ministry for us and involves some
sacrifice, lots of work, and much
wondering about how long we can do
it. But God has given us what we need
for each day.

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“Sharpe words”
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what we can buy them; they simply
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 

Eastvale, Calif.

Corrections
William Bradford, who is buried in the
cemetery at Trinity Church in New
York (Houses of God, Sept. , p. ),
was a printer born in  who arrived
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The capital of Nigeria is Abuja (“What
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Lane Hardie set up a job-help
program at Central Presbyterian
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No turning back
In the face of tragedy, a family’s choice to praise
God challenges us to do the same

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KRIEG BARRIE

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S  J W lost six children in
a single day when a piece of metal fell off a
truck and punctured the gas tank of their
minivan. That’s the part of the story that is
public, so I am not telling tales out of school. The
accident unraveled a corruption scandal of bribes
for driver’s licenses funneled into campaign chests,
and ultimately sent a governor of Illinois to prison.
But this is an essay about meeting the Willises 
years later at a Christian conference, and about Psalm
, and the triumph of Christendom by that simplest
and most elusive of acts—believing God. And it is
about the responsibility placed on me by knowing this
now. And on you too, if you continue to read.
By the ball of fire that consumed their minivan
on Interstate , Scott (his face badly burned) said
to his wife (her hands badly burned) what she told
me are the best words he could have said: “It was
very quick. And they’re with the Lord now.” Then,
as he was helped to one ambulance and she to
another, he called back to her: “Psalm .”
Surrounded by emergency responders, Janet kept
praying out, “I will bless the Lord at all times; His
praise shall continually be in my mouth,” with the
accent on “will.” I believe it is the same way Jesus
must have cried to His Father, “I will put My trust in
Him” (Hebrews :), not from a lotus position, but
in torment.
Because of the Willises, there is no turning back
for me. I can never again countenance childhood
trauma as an excuse for present sins.
Gone is my ability ever to say that the Lord does
not expect us to praise Him at all times. The oft-heard
caveat that in certain sufferings it is impossible to
praise the Lord—and uncharitable to expect another
to do so—is totally and irreversibly undercut by this
testimony.
Gone forever is my ability to engage in ivory
tower discussions on the applicability of certain
Scriptures to my life. All speculations over whether
the Psalms are merely liturgy or are meant to be
obeyed are forthwith canceled. The Willises read the
words “I will bless the Lord at all times” and came
to the astonishing conclusion that it meant they
should bless the Lord at all times.
Gone, therefore, is my ability to take Scripture at
anything but face value. No turning back.
Thanks to the Willises, I can never again entertain
as a theoretical possibility the notion that a person

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is unable to keep God’s commandments. Janet Willis
chose, in an act of volition stripped bare of any
warmth of feeling, to trust in her God.
Blown out of the water is any attempt to come up
with a scenario in which I might be excused for
abandoning my faith. The Willises robbed me of that
luxury when they underwent a testing at the
extremities of human experience, and overcame—as
the Son of Man with eyes of flame among the lampstands bids us overcome.
Banished are my quid pro quos, the restrictions I
put on God’s discipline unawares; the time limits I
set Him for pulling rescue out of affliction; the lines
I would not let Him cross; the right I reserved to
judge His justice. The Willises have placed their
stake here: “Though He slay me, yet will I trust
Him” (Job :).
“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear” (Isaiah
:). A command to sing at such a time would be
cruel counsel if it were not true that in worship we
find deliverance. Praise meets trauma where nothing
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Because the Willises chose to praise, I can
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Meeting them has increased my obligation, as every
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Battling class envy
A long struggle for me, and for America

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shepherd. I shall not want.” In junior high and high
school I wanted everything and had no trust that
God would provide anything. Since I had always
lived in an apartment on one floor, I coveted houses
with both an upstairs and a downstairs. We had a
black-and-white television. I coveted a color one.
In September , I put my two polyester
sweaters in a suitcase and headed off to college. My
roommate was a New Yorker who had brought his
own dresser just to hold all his luxurious woolens. I
was mad at him from day one.
Later, I learned that Yale gave a prize to the
undergraduate who had the best book collection. I
spent three years putting together a collection of
inexpensive paperbacks that in my view reflected
excellent taste. The contest judges came to inspect.
They trooped to my room, took a -second look at
the paperbacks, and walked out chuckling. The
prize committee chairman told me I’d be better off
trading the thousand paperbacks for several prime
(and expensive) first editions.
Yes, I know class hatred.
A year after graduation, hatred led me into the
Communist Party USA. Envy led me to advocate
murderous revolution of the kind that ravaged Russia,
China, Cuba, Cambodia, and other countries. Envy
leads to class warfare. Class warfare kills. It might
kill this country.
I’ve written in  (worldmag.com/store)
about how God graciously pulled me out of communism. When I became a Christian in , many of my
sinful tendencies remained. It’s been a -year struggle to corral them. But one instantly disappeared:
class envy. Strange but true. My pre-Christian life
did not include a day without envy of the rich. My
Christian life has not included a day with it.
Would that I could say that about my other sins!
But my life has been better without class envy.
I’m not saying we should ignore the way our
concentration of power in Washington allows some
to combine political and economic clout. Nor should
we ignore how failing public schools leave many
children uneducated: That’s our nation’s prime
structural problem.
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improve if we paid less attention to what the rich
have, more to the sin in our own lives, and more to
the productive ways of helping the poor that 
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KRIEG BARRIE

L  I   creating more
jobs by not worrying about inequality and
putting aside class envy. One reader responded
by asking whether I truly understood the
debilitating effects of inequality and the anger it
can cause. Oh yes, I know.
My earliest memories are of my mother’s envy. She
had five siblings, all of them married, all living close
to each other in Massachusetts, so every other Sunday
evening they assembled for bridge games that rotated
among the various homes. When it was our turn I got
to set out the candy dishes, sneaking more than my
share of Brach’s sugared fruit slices, chocolate gold
coins, M&M king-size peanuts, and Tootsie rolls.
Dressed in my plaid knee-length shorts, my belly
pushing against the fabric of a button-up shirt, with
dark socks and dark leather shoes finishing the look,
I listened to my mother interrogating her sisters about
any new clothes they were wearing: “What’s something like that cost?” or “Where did you buy it?”
My mother had married a smart man who was
poor. Her sisters had married uneducated entrepreneurs who became rich. They lived
in “split-level homes”—I
wasn’t sure what they
were, but they were
bigger and better than
our snug apartment.
They had wall-to-wall
carpeting. We had peeling
linoleum.
My mother’s sisters
played mahjong, but at age
, once I hit the fourth
grade, she went back to work
as a secretary, this time in a
tannery. The smell was bad
but the sense of defeat was
worse. Her sisters had the
good life. She had dictation. I had a bicycle
put together out of
scrap metal. I wouldn’t
ride it in front of
other kids with
their Schwinns.
I coveted.
The rd Psalm
famously begins,
“The Lord is my

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